Vedant G
Deputy Secretary at Saranda House - IITM BS
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolVedant G is a software engineer and open-source maintainer with five years of hands-on experience automating release and packaging workflows. Based in Lucknow and educated in Data Science at IIT Madras, he focuses on build/release engineering—contributing to high-profile projects like GoReleaser (winget integration, templated GitHub releases) and maintaining packages for NixOS. He combines a pragmatic "automate everything" mindset with roles in student leadership at IITM, currently serving as Deputy Secretary and previously coordinating regional activities. Vedant's contributions show attention to detail across manifests, schemas, and cross-language build configurations (Rust, Zig), reflecting both tooling fluency and production-awareness. As a GitHub-native developer and GoReleaser maintainer, he bridges developer ergonomics and reliable release pipelines for diverse ecosystems.
5 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasHigh School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at City Montessori School
English, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
release-management10
github-ci10
go10
release-automation10
githubaction-workflow10
yaml9
template-literals8
zig7
rust7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
goreleaser/goreleaser
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Release engineering, simplified
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 19 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Vedant primarily contributed to the automation of the release process, focusing on the integration with the winget package manager. They updated manifest versions and schemas, ensuring compatibility with the latest winget releases. Additionally, the user fixed typos and made changes related to build configurations, especially regarding dependencies for specific build environments like Rust and Zig. They also integrated templating for GitHub release configurations.
golangrpmsnapcraftapkdocker
microsoft/winget-pkgs
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository
Contributions:360 reviews, 20995 commits, 25886 PRs in 1 year 7 months
mdtwindows-package-managerwindowsmanifestmicrosoft-community
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