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I'm Bharat, from 🇮🇳👨🏽‍💻 Hi! I'm a software engineer at MUI, maintainers of the popular React library Material UI, working to democratise access to beautiful, performant software.🚧 Parallely, I work with organisations trying to solve societal problems through technology – a core project.📝 Subscribe to my newsletter here to get a monthly digest of: the best quiz questions I made, thoughts on cities and culture from travelling, and other ramblings.
⚡ Significant Work

MUI

Nov 2021 - present
I work with MUI (maintainers of Material-UI, one of the world's most popular open-source libraries), to help make it easier and faster for developers to build modern, performant, and accessible websites.

Civic Tech Field Guide

Jan 2022 - present
Volunteer for the Civic Tech Field Guide project which aims to build a directory of all civic tech projects in the world to help both those looking for solutions, and those looking to solve problems.

iSPIRT

Sep 2021 - present
Working as a volunteer with iSPIRT on multiple projects in collaboration with product partners and government agencies. Current focus: cryptographic, consented data sharing.

Hasura

June 2021 - present
Contributor to Hasura's React connector: added features to add only permitted fields, and being able to make 'distinct_on' queries. Selected as a Hasura 'Community Champion' in the process

DIKSHA

Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Designed and built features to enable digital, decentralised assessment creation inside India's public digital infrastructure for learning, "DIKSHA"

Turkbox

Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Won the Google News Initiatve Innovation Challenge 2019 for "Turkbox" - a product that allowed smaller publications to monetise reader attention without advertisments

Digital Saathi

July 2021
A low-code software platform built to power a state-wide device donation campaign in Himachal Pradesh, India - allowing the tracking, verification and certification of smartphone donation to children in need

CoWIN

May 2021
Fixed an issue where ages were calculated incorrectly on India's national digital Covid vaccination certificate

Atlan

May 19 - Jan 20
Worked as a frontend engineering intern for Atlan – a modern data workspace – and helped build a media library and a graphical query interface using Vue.js

Argonaut

Sep 2019
A cryptocurrency based urban data exchange which won first place at HackMIT 2019, for "Building the financial revolution"

DISHA

June 2018
Contributed to the creation of India's first national, inter-departmental data platform, "Disha Dashboard", for progress monitoring by members of parliament
🎤 Talks

BIRAC Webinar

March 2022
Speaker at a webinar organised by BIRAC, talking about the work being done in India in the field of digital health

GraphQL Asia

February 2021
Speaker at "GraphQL Asia", talking about the benefits of low-code software development using GraphQL in state governments

ReactFoo Pune

February 2020
Speaker at "ReactFoo Pune 2020", talking about one way to modernise legacy codebases