class SoftwareEngineer:
def __init__(self):
self.name = "Sakshar Dhawan"
self.pronouns = "He / Him"
self.location = "Bangalore , India 🇮🇳"
self.role = [
"Software Engineering Student",
"API & Backend Developer",
"Open Source Contributor"
]
self.education = [
"BSc CS & AI @ BITS Pilani"
]
self.interests = [
"API Architecture & Backend Systems",
"Open Source Ecosystems & Developer Tooling",
"AI Agents, RAG Pipelines & LLM Orchestration",
"Distributed Systems & Blockchain Infra",
"iOS Development with SwiftUI"
]
def current_focus(self):
return {
"building" : "Clean backend APIs & full-stack apps",
"contributing" : "AI agents, infra tooling, distributed systems",
"learning" : "Systems design, Kubernetes, blockchain protocols",
"exploring" : "LLM orchestration & agentic frameworks"
}
def fun_fact(self):
return "I fed 1000+ people as a volunteer before writing my first API 🍛"
def philosophy(self):
return "Ask 'what if?', break things openly, and always ship real."
JavaScript / TypeScript ████████████████████░░░░ 85%
Python ██████████████████░░░░░░ 75%
API & Backend Dev ████████████████████░░░░ 85%
Open Source / Git ███████████████████░░░░░ 80%
Swift / iOS Dev ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 50%
Systems Design ████████████████░░░░░░░░ 65%
Kubernetes / DevOps ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 50%
React / Frontend ██████████████░░░░░░░░░░ 60%
| 🔌 | Backend Systems — Designing clean APIs with focus on reliability, scalability & clean architecture |
| 🤖 | AI & Open Source — Contributing to AI agents, RAG pipelines, LLM tooling & agentic frameworks |
| ☸️ | Distributed Systems — Exploring Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, blockchain infra & distributed protocols |
| 📱 | iOS Development — Building SwiftUI apps: personal analytics, biometrics & community tools |
| 🌐 | Full-Stack Web Apps — Shipping end-to-end apps from recipe platforms to LMS systems |
| 📦 | Developer Tooling — Improving DX through better docs, CLIs, shell completions & onboarding flows |
I actively contribute across the stack — developer tooling, AI agents, file transfer, distributed infrastructure & healthcare OSS. 30+ repos forked and contributed to.
| 🔧 Project | 🌟 Domain | 💬 Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| 🗓️ ics-query | Developer Tooling | Improved onboarding with pipx installation docs |
| 🤖 Diplomat-agent | AI Agents | Added inter-procedural decorator guard resolution |
| 🧠 Nous | LLM Memory | Resolved syntax errors & merge conflicts in core modules |
| 🔄 Protoflow | C++ Frameworks | Updated README for AppBase, core libs & skeleton-app |
| ⚡ spawnverse | AI Orchestration | Built fail-fast GROQ_API_KEY check in the Orchestrator |
| 📁 BeamSync | File Transfer | Shipped real-time transfer progress with speed & ETA |
| 🪙 Intcoin | Blockchain | Enhanced shell completions and RPC parameter suggestions |
| 🗺️ Chatvector-ai | RAG Engine | Added /roadmap page to the frontend demo site |
| 🌐 DDP Backend | Django / Backend | Contributed to Django app for the DDP data platform |
| ☸️ Kubernetes | Infra / DevOps | Production-grade container scheduling contributions |
| 🔭 OpenTelemetry | Observability | Python API/SDK distributed tracing contributions |
| 🧬 OpenMRS Core | Healthcare OSS | Medical open source Java API contributions |
| 📐 sint-protocol | Physical AI | Runtime authorization & audit layer contributions |
| 🏡 Home Assistant | IoT / Automation | Python-based home automation platform contributions |
| 🎓 freeCodeCamp | Education | Open source curriculum & codebase contributions |
💬 "I believe the best engineers give back to the ecosystem that made them."
2020 ──┬── Volunteer Coordinator @ Robin Hood Army
│ Leadership · Coordination · Empathy at scale
2025 ──┼── Enrolled @ Scaler School of Technology & BITS Pilani
│ First web projects: Portfolio, Quiz Cards, Rock Paper Scissors
Late ┼── Built Education Web App (TypeScript), Book_Verse (JavaScript)
2025 │ Sound Board mid-term project · multiple frontend experiments
Early ┼── Shipped InsightLog App, Bio Authenticator, Community Aid (SwiftUI)
2026 │ Entered open source — first contributions merged 🎉
Feb ┼── Open Source Developer @ GitHub (Full-time)
2026 │ 30+ repos · AI agents · Kubernetes · blockchain · RAG
Apr ┴── ▶ HERE — Still building. Still shipping. Still learning. 🚀
2026
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Feb 2026 – Present · Full-time · Remote Contributing across the stack — AI agents, developer tooling, real-time systems & blockchain infrastructure. 30+ repositories, multiple merged contributions. |
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Mar 2020 – Jul 2025 · 5 years · Punjab, India Led volunteer ops for a zero-funds movement feeding the less fortunate. Coordinated teams, logistics, and community outreach at scale. |
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Scaler School of Technology — BSc Computer Science & AI · Jul 2025 – Jul 2029
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BITS Pilani — BSc Computer Science & AI · Aug 2025 – Aug 2028
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"If you're building something in the open or want to talk APIs, backend architecture, or open source — let's connect."
⭐ If you find my work helpful, star a repo — it means the world! ⭐