Experience
- Ente ☆ 25.6k Jan 2024 – Present
- Software Engineer
- Implemented end-to-end encrypted video streaming solution (IndiaFOSS talk)
- Faster and reliable uploads with background processing and multipart uploads
- Built a plugin for native video editor, 7 times faster than existing plugin
- Native widgets to surface on-device machine learning powered memories
- Smart albums support for automatically adding photos of selected person in an album
- Created Ensu, a local LLM app, maintaining it across all platforms (#1 on HackerNews)
- Engineered a desktop version of the 2FA app, Ente Auth, used by 300k users
- Google Summer of Code ☆ 879 2023 – 2025
- Participated in GSoC in 2023 and 2024 as a Mentee, 2025 as a Mentor
- Mentored two engineers through their projects (CCExtractor v1.00 Release, Rewriting lib_ccx)
- Migrated core C modules to Rust, improving reliability and memory safety
- Fixed flaky builds that kept breaking on different operating systems
- Restored the test suite, unblocking releases that had been stalled
- Shipped a major CCExtractor release and helped grow the community
Side Projects
- AppImage Pool ☆ 706
- A clean, easy way to discover and install 500+ Linux apps
- PsTube ☆ 529
- Watch and download YouTube videos without ads, on any platform
- Flutter Speed Dial ♥ 1.3k
- A popular Flutter package for animated, expandable floating action buttons
- Libadwaita ☆ 268
- Brought GNOME's beautiful design language to Flutter apps everywhere
- Net Speed Simplified ☆ 123
- See your internet speed at a glance, right in your GNOME desktop panel
Talks
Blogs
- Ensu - Ente's Local LLM app