Interviews

As a University student currently, balance is not an option 🤣. It's good to seek that equilibrium between the professional, personal and open-source but also understand that you are bound to let one aspect of your life falter here and there. Now the importance is not keeping the one, or even all three at a decline rather learn from that experience and keep going. At the end of the day, we are all human beings.

my name is Saksham Shekher and I hail from the vibrant city of Mumbai, India. A newcomer to the field of web development and Python, I take great pleasure in transforming unrefined websites into streamlined, visually appealing, and intuitive platforms.

Since 2019, I've contributed to open-source projects and honed my troubleshooting skills, inspired by my tech-savvy brothers. I've managed communities on Telegram, Facebook, and Discord, and shared my knowledge through teaching.

The person that probably influenced my career the most is Igor Kasyanchuk, he really helped me with my professional growth as a Ruby developer and we've build many open-source projects together.

The main challenge is to find time.

Ruby and Rails libraries:
- [creator] Invisible Captcha: Anti-spam solution for Rails
- [creator] Maily: Rails engine to preview emails in the browser
- [creator] MiniI18n: Simple, flexible and fast Ruby Internationalization library
- [creator] Jekyll-Timeago: Ruby library to compute distance of dates in words, with localization support and Jekyll integration
- [maintainer] Sidekiq-Cron: Scheduling add-on for Sidekiq
- [maintainer] VideoInfo: Get video info from Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube URLs.

JavaScript projects:
- [co-creator] Ralix: Microframework for building and organizing Rails front-ends via Webpacker

Starter Kits:
- [creator] Rails + Ralix + Tailwind
- [creator] Middleman + Bootstrap

Others:
- [creator] Awesome Ruby: A categorized community-driven collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software
- [maintainer] TimeOverflow: Time Bank management system
- [co-creator] Tonic: Automatically convert a YAML/JSON into a "filterable" collection website

Now also helping to build Open Source Heroes!