Somesh Kar
Engineering at Zamana
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Top SchoolSomesh Kar is a systems-focused software engineer building performance-sensitive tooling close to hardware, with eight years of hands-on experience across infrastructure, GPU tooling, and web platforms. He co-created Tensara, a serverless GPU kernel benchmarking platform with 1,500+ users and 40,000+ submissions, and implements sandboxed compilation and profiling pipelines for competitive optimization. At Zerodha Tech he works on India Stack internals, zero-trust networking, and high-throughput internal infrastructure, complementing earlier work scaling covid19india.org to millions of daily users. He also leads developer work for the Mercatus Center’s 1991 Project and is building RAG-based research tools for large archival collections. A former startup co-founder who reached YC interview stage and an Emergent Ventures fellow, he blends entrepreneurial grit with rigorous systems engineering. Based in New Delhi and fluent in Go, JavaScript, and Linux, he brings unusual depth in both low-level performance and applied public-interest tech.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shiv Nadar UniversityHigh School Diploma, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science, High School Diploma, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
English, Hindi, French, Odia
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Github Skills (11)
uid10
javascript10
nextjs10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
css8
html8
corona7
antivirus7
virus7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
someshkar/covid19india-cluster
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
:microscope: Covid19 India Cluster Graph
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 24 PRs, 21 pushes in 24 days
Contributions summary:Somesh primarily contributed to the front-end development of the COVID-19 India cluster graph project. They implemented UI components using React, including a network map, filter panel, and date picker. The commits demonstrate the integration of external data sources and libraries to visualize and filter COVID-19 data. The changes improve the project's responsiveness and overall user interface.
graphcovid19indiacovid19-clustercovid19-graph
labs-asterisk/interview-checklist
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Making interview prep great again!
Contributions:42 commits, 4 pushes in 7 days
interview-prepgreatleetcode-solutionsleetcode
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