Hey 
, I'm Kunal!
🎓 I’m an Open-Source enthusiast & a junior pursuing my Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering.
👨💻 I am passionate about Kubernetes, Web Dev, Machine Learning, DevOps & I enjoy learning new things.
- Co-Founder and Instructor (Code for Cause) - Started a community to provide education & mentorship to students globally & have 10k+ students be a part in first 4 months.
- Google Summer of Code Mentor (Red Hat Middleware) for improving Gradle support in the Quarkus framework.
- Major League Hacking Fellow - Contributed to Open Source projects written in JavaScript with a focus on the React ecosystem, & added new features in Facebook's Jest.
- Google Code-in Mentor (Red Hat Middleware) for Kubernetes Java client, Web & Middleware technologies.
- Google Summer of Code Student Developer (Red Hat Middleware) - Worked on fabric8io-Kubernetes Java client for handling Kubernetes & OpenShift clusters.
- TA & Instructor at Coding Blocks for Java, Python, Data Science & Machine Learning.
- Python Mentor (AnitaB.org) - Conducted doubt sessions & masterclasses for a group of 200+ students.
- Instructor at workshops conducted by 'CodeChef for Schools' for Competitive Programming.
- Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador - Conducted workshops & webinars on DevOps, Open Source, Cloud, ML, Web Dev, etc.
- Received 1 in 550 rare Community Hero badger from Microsoft for organising meetups, conferences, sharing content and being an active member of the community.
- Selected as 1 of 500 recipients for the Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Scholarship Program designed to upskill professionals interested in using emerging cloud technologies to enhance their organization's IT infrastructure.
- Selected as a recipient for the Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship in the Developer Do-Gooders category.
- Selected as a scholarship recipient for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Open Source Summit in 2019 & 2020.