EXPERIENCES

• 09/2024–Present: Free Software Consultant - Junior Embedded Systems Engineer at Savoir-faire Linux, Rennes

• 08/2020–Present: Developer and maintainer of the electrical circuit simulator in GCompris (volunteer)

  • Port the analog electricity activity from the old Gtk version to the new Qt version of GCompris see the source.
  
  

• 10/2019–Present: Malayalam translator for GCompris (volunteer)

  • Malayalam translation status : https://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable-kf5/package/gcompris/ml/ (part of the work is financed by ICFOSS).
  
  

• 08/2019–Present: Coordinator of the Malayalam translation team for www.gnu.org (volunteer)

  • See the Malayalam team’s home page for more info.
  
  

• 10/2021–09/2023: Developer at Activdesign, Rennes

  • Create dynamic websites (backend and templating with Django: website of Grafiklabor).

  • Extend Webtoonize, an interactive comic creation tool built with Godot (a project using the tool: Un jour j’irai).

  • Fix bugs and migrate websites from Django 2 to 4.

  • Teach courses on Python, internationalization, programming basics, Git basics, bug reporting, mathematics basics, and shader basics.

• 06/2021–09/2021: Intern developer in the AgriBIoT team at INRIA, Rennes

  • Participate in API development.

  • Compare different JavaScript frameworks (Vue.JS, React and Angular) with the aim of integrating them with Django link to the source.

• 12/2019–09/2020: Tester for GNU Freefont(volunteer)

  • Test and report bugs in Malayalam glyphs contained in the font using SVN, HTML, CSS, Python, and Harfbuzz (example: link to a bug report).
  
  

• 10/2017–08/2018: Civil service volunteer at Centre de Beaumotte, Besançon

  • Participate in the daily activities of adolescents and adults in difficulty.

  • Animate a bivouac for teenagers.

• 02/2017–09/2017: FOSS Innovation Fellow at ICFOSS, India

  • Create and organize the Women Hackers Project, a program that addresses the gender gap in free and open source software, and the technology learning gap among technology students in Kerala, India (some references: Gender & Technology Program, ICFOSS, one of the five finalists of the Equals in Tech Awards 2020).

  • Share technical and non-technical knowledge, such as open hardware and free software, with a maximum of 30 people.

• 02/2016–01/2017: Technology Innovation Fellow at KSUM, India (https://startupmission.kerala.gov.in/)

  • Organize and participate in programs that foster innovation among students in Kerala and help technology startups thrive.

EDUCATION

• 10/2021–02/2024: Degree in Application Development—Python from OpenClassrooms

  • Most of the projects are in my Gitlab account, where the project names start with “OC-project”.
  
  

• 05/2021–09/2021: Prépa Avenir FLE (français langue étrangère) at CLPS, Rennes

• 09/2011–05/2015: BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering Trivandrum, India

MISCELLANEOUS

• Interview in English about GCompris contributions by KDAB: GCompris in India - An Example of Its Global Spread, from a Contributor’s Perspective.

• Talk in French at GrafikLabor 2023: Webtoonize 2.0.

• Talk in English at Akademy 2019 (the annual gathering of the KDE community): GCompris in Kerala, part 2 (article by the co-presenter - Back from Akademy 2019 in Milan).

• Trekking in the Himalayas up to 4400m altitude.

LANGUAGES

• French (DCL C1)
• English (bilingual)
• Malayalam (mother tongue)

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