Sayak Sarkar
Open Source Practitioner
ThinkRED Technologies
Remote 12 years experience Language(s): English, Hindi, Bengali
About
Software engineer with 15 years of experience in building products and helping teams work effectively. Contributed to open-source communities for over a decade, with community building experience in the Mozilla and Fedora Open Source Communities and more recent focus on platform engineering at Red Hat and Upwork. Currently building infrastructure automation tools through ThinkRED Technologies. Interested in sharing lessons learned from both successes and failures in open-source projects.
Notable Experience
- • 1. Disha - Bengali Keyboard Input System (2012)
- • Organization: Ankur India (Google Summer of Code 2012)
- • What it does: A visual keyboard layout system for typing Bengali on Linux systems
- • Impact: Adopted as a standard input method in major Linux distributions; helps Bengali speakers type more naturally
- • Technologies: LISP, IBus, m17n
- • Status: Still actively used and maintained by the community
- • 2. WordPress Mobile App for Firefox OS (2013)
- • Organization: WordPress/Automattic (Google Summer of Code 2013)
- • What it does: A mobile app that let users manage their WordPress blogs from Firefox OS devices
- • Technologies: JavaScript, Enyo 2.0
- • Achievement: Successfully released and used by the community until Firefox OS was discontinued
- • 3. SPAship - Single-Page App Deployment Platform (2019-2022)
- • Organization: Red Hat
- • What it does: A platform that helps teams deploy and manage single-page applications
- • URL: spaship.io | GitHub: github.com/spaship/spaship
- • Role: Worked as Product Lead and Development Lead
- • Outcome: The second major release saw increased usage across Red Hat teams; project continues as open-source
- • Technologies: Vue.js, React, Node.js, GraphQL, OpenShift
- • 4. One Platform - Internal Applications Platform (2017-2022)
- • Organization: Red Hat
- • What it does: A platform for hosting and managing internal web applications and microservices
- • URL: one.redhat.com | GitHub: github.com/1-platform/one-platform
- • Role: Product Lead
- • Outcome: Helped standardize how multiple teams deploy and maintain internal applications; maintained good uptime and reliability
- • Technologies: Vue.js, GraphQL, Microservices, OpenShift
- • 5. Webmaker Tools Suite (2013)
- • Organization: Mozilla Foundation
- • What it does: Browser-based tools for learning and creating web content; included Bengali translation and documentation
- • Role: Contributor
- • Contribution: Helped localize tools and create learning materials for Indian communities
- • 6. Mozilla India Community (2011-2023)
- • Role: Community Co-Lead and volunteer community organizer
- • What we did: Built a community space for people interested in Mozilla projects and open source; organized events, mentored contributors, facilitated discussions
- • Outcome: Community grew over time; had the privilege of mentoring several people who went on to take leadership roles
- • Coverage: Active across India and worked with communities in neighboring regions
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