Amitosh Mahapatra

Amitosh Swain Mahapatra

Product Engineer @ Gojek

Bangalore, IN

A cloud engineer, full stack developer, conference speaker, open-source contributor and computer whisperer from Bangalore, India. Been conjuring code since 2010

I’ve created, as well as contributed to a number of open source projects using Java, Go, NodeJS, & Python.

I am the maintainer of the popular NodeJS module called `bcrypt`, which gets around 2 million installs every day making it one of the most used NodeJS modules.

I have worked with the FOSSi Foundation as part of the Google Summer of Code, 2017, and the Fedora Project as part of the Google Summer of Code, 2018 and I am an active contributor to Fedora Project, FOSSi foundation, Elastic and numerous other open source projects.

I work at Gojek, the south-east asia's "super-app", as a product engineer for the GoPay team where I develop payment APIs using all sorts of interesting technologies and challenges.

Latest Posts

GSoC 2018: Week 2

This is Status Report for Fedora App filled by participants on a weekly basis.

GSoC 2018: Week 1

This is Status Report for Fedora App filled by participants on a weekly basis.

GSoC 2018: Kicking off the Coding

It’s May 14, and this is when we officially start coding for GSoC, 2018 edition. This time, I would be working on improving the Fedora Community App with the Fedora project. This marks the beginning of a journey of 3 months of coding, patching, debugging, git (mess) and the awesome discussions with my mentors and the community.

The State of the GSoC Payments for India 2017

One of the very interesting part of Google Summer of Code is the payments. It’s a large factor that will motivate you to continue your project amidst the very hot and humid Indian summer. Setting up the payment correctly is a really nervous experience, as the questions asked during sign-up are bewildering. I aim to answer some questions that came to my mind while signing up to Payoneeer. If you are new to GSoC, I hope this will be helpful for you.

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