Software engineer in Bengaluru, open to remote. I work on browser automation, web scraping and systems code in Python, C and C++, and I contribute to open-source projects.
What I work on
- Browser automation and scraping: Playwright, Selenium and Scrapy pipelines, session handling, and pulling structured data out of web apps
- Systems: C/C++ performance work in storage engines, a toy compiler, reverse engineering and binary parsing
- Backend and integrations: REST API clients, OAuth/SCIM app integrations, rate-limited batch jobs, Django
Currently learning: Rust and Apache DataFusion
| Project | Contribution |
|---|---|
| TidesDB (C storage engine) | #643: faster SHA256 update/final (block-wise memcpy instead of per-byte copies) plus benchmark tests |
| #658: compile SHA256/HMAC code and their tests only into S3-enabled builds | |
| Scrapy | #6547: moved tool configs into pyproject.toml (14 files) |
| zyte-common-items | #118: migrated setup.py to pyproject.toml |
| #115: fixed the tox command so tests report coverage | |
| Zulip (Python/Django) | #28516: stopped exposing email addresses as URL parameters on the find-account page |
| #28582: added a "send another email" button to find-account | |
| #28598: send an email even when no Zulip account matches the address | |
| GoCD integration rewrite (co-authored): moved to a webhook-plugin-based integration with richer notifications, fixtures and tests (fixes #21224) |
- Notion-Playwright: async Playwright script that logs into Notion, reuses the saved session, invites test members, and exports workspace users to JSON through Notion's web endpoints.
- simplelang: small C++ compiler (tokenizer → recursive-descent parser → AST → assembly for a simple two-register machine), written to learn compiler basics.
- smartlead: threaded, rate-limited Python client that finds and removes leads that never replied from completed SmartLead campaigns. Uses Polars and a GitHub Actions workflow.
Python (Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, Django) · C · C++ · CMake · JavaScript/TypeScript · MongoDB · Firebase · SQL/MySQL · Git & GitHub Actions · Linux