My Open-Source Contributions are only done when I'm extremely bored with life, which means that you may often see me becoming suddenly active in a project and then going AWOL for weeks or months only to return back with a much greater intensity. I mostly do open-source work for dopamine hits, followed by the philosophy of software being free for everyone to use.

I'm highly active in the Debian Project as of now where I take up on package maintenance as a Debian Maintainer. This also means you'll often see me submitting patches or PRs to upstream sources on GitHub if I fix any of such issues on the Debian side. If you want someone to package your software project (if useful) into Debian, feel free to contact me.

I'm also exploring FreeBSD and trying to get into its development when I find some more "boring time" because I like the design of FreeBSD and I think it could be a really good project in the future if all of us contribute to it.

I used to actively contribute to translations of Telugu for some Linux distros like Linux Mint and Ubuntu but due to lack of other people to work with, I eventually left translations as I felt packaging was more of a high stakes game with a lot more fun.

I eventually plan to explore contributing to the Linux kernel down the line in some way if I find more of that "boring time".

I have, as a young teenager, never cared about open source or free software. The only thing I knew was tinkering with electronics and playing games. The first piece of free software that I probably used was VLC Media Player, followed by Ubuntu 16 (which I accidentally bricked).

It wasn't until 2020 during my late teens that I discovered the browser wars and ditched Chrome to move to Firefox. Writing code was foreign to me until I learnt Python in high school.

It all changed in 2024 with my visit to UbuCon Asia 2024. I learnt that there's an entire community out there working on OS development. I began contributing to Ubuntu and Linux Mint via translations.

Later, during a Research Internship, I created a debugging tool called quickoverflow. I reached out to the Debian community for help distributing it, and unknowingly, I became a Debian packager. I ended up packaging a lot of Python libraries into Debian and soon extended my contributions to FreeBSD ports as well.