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Rajasekhar Ponakala

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@rajasekharP
User ID: 761
Member since March 29, 2016
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Rajasekhar


I'm a Freedom Software Contributor

About me

Education

  • Studied Master of Engineerig (ME) at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.
  • Published a thesis preprint in IndiArxiv titled as "Testing Deep Neural Networks for Classification Tasks Through Adversarial Perturbations on Test Datasets"
  • Studied Bachelor of Engineering in JNTUH
  • Presented a POC of project on Indian License Plate Detection and Text Extraction using BeagleBoneBlack by utilizing K-NN algorithm to the Telangana Government Traffic Police Authority

Free Software Movement of India

  • Hacktivist: co-authored a news article on IT Rules 2021
  • Speaker, MiniDebConfIndia 2021
  • Speaker, International Debian Conference 2021

Swecha Telangana

  • Administered a doctor portal software for the helpline by Forum for People’s Health to provide tele-medicine in service of people suffering from non-COVID ailments during the first lockdown in 2020 helping more than 40,000 families
  • Supported one-click deployments for 15+ applicaions using Dreahost Cloud provider
  • Mentored the development of E-commerce website for farmers market activity at various gated communities to sell tomatoes and other farm produce more than 16 tonnes from Nalgonda district eliminating middlemen helping farmers
  • Advocated and spearheaded Mobile Freedom Intiative
  • Configured firewall for 10+ community services using pfSense software
  • Mentored several projects in data science domain in the Swecha Summer Internship 2019
  • Speaker for Two-day workshop on Open Hardware at Jyothishmathi Institute of Technology and Science
  • Speakr for Two-day workshop on IOT at JNTUH College of Engineering Jagtial
  • Speaker for Two-day workshop on Open Hardware at khammam institute of technology and science
  • Speaker for One-day workshop on Basic Linux Administration at Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India
  • Speaker for Basic Linux Administration to configure Drupal at Sridevi Women’s Engineering College
  • Speaker for TechDays 3.0 & 4.0
  • Internships (2019 - Present) - Organised the event along with designing curiculum & schedules, mentoring projects and giving talks
  • Workshops (2014 - Present) - Organised and Co-ordinated many workshops for undergrads and developers in technologies ranging from security to full stack
  • Telugu Localisation Sprint 2018 - Organised localisation sprint on Telugu Wikipedia

JNTUH Glug Organiser

  • Developed a Drupal website for the college Annual Fest 2014
  • Co-organized 15-day boot camp on open source technologies, and trained students on Linux System Administration
  • Assisted as a lab instructor for Swecha Summer Internship 2016
  • Delivered sessions and Mentored for Debian GNU/Linux training in JNTUH GLUG
  • Configured automatic controlling of paper presentations in collage annual fests using RaspberryPi open hardware
  • Configured a Debian GNU/Linux based VoIP server for college fest benefitting 500+ participants to call each other eliminating the necessity of cellular networks in that zone
  • Configured OpenWRT software in BeagleBoneBlack open hardware to create an Access Point instance in the ECE department in the college
  • Deployed college internet radio instance using GNU Radio project
  • Mentored research project on Evaluation of ERP solution on Open Hardware for small scale businesses
  • Assisted a PhD dissertation on testing decryption algorithms of Indian Language Cryptography Ciphers
  • Trained Government School Teachers on installation, usage and management of BalaSwechaOS

IIT Hyderabad

  • Worked as a Research Assistant
  • Field-tested Zigbee module for in-campus communication
  • Developed a compatibility model with hyper spectral density data between low and high range areal drones
  • Analyzed several research papers for computer vision in relation to hyper spectral density data
  • Handled system administration tasks for Wireless Networks Lab systems installing and resolving all Debian OS related issues

** 💼 NewsClick**

  • Currently working as a DevOps Engineer
  • Worked on cloud services like AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost
  • As a senior data scientist, built an alogorithm, based on Tesseract OCR engine which converts non-searchable content in PDF documents like scanned documents to searchable format for Telugu and English languages.
  • Also, built data dashboards to visualise state and district wise COVID19 data in real-time using QGIS and LeafletJS.
  • As a application developer, developed a Petition management system using Django where users can create petitions and organize signature campaigns.

Internatioal communities

  • I was Co-speaker for privacy and encryption at Barcamp Bangkok 2018
  • Organised Firefox Quantum Release event at Asian Institute of Technology
  • Upstream project contributions: Stremio, BigBlueButton, Rustaceans
  • Upstream issues WIP: Firefox-lockwise, PyTorch, GitLab
  • I'm a Debian package maintainer. See my profile here.
  • I'm also a Creative Commons Global Network Member.
  • I'm a Mozillian. I've been part of Open Leadership team, mentoring the projects in different rounds.

❤️ I love hackthons on public code projects

💬 Ask me about anything here

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