Sanyam Khurana

Sanyam Khurana, an Open Source contributor who predominantly goes by the moniker "CuriousLearner," achieved summa cum laude distinction upon obtaining a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in Machine Learning and Interactive Intelligence. He is also an AWS certified Solutions Architect.

Sanyam has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the Open Source community, having served as a GSoC mentor for Debian and an individual member of the Django Software Foundation (DSF). His GitHub profile (https://github.com/CuriousLearner/) is filled with evidence of his contributions to numerous upstream projects.

He has delivered presentations at a variety of international conferences, including PyCon Australia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7JklZRtrs) and DjangoCon US (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZ_1gsS4F8).

Sanyam's work has also been instrumental in maintaining and improving CPython, Python's interpreter, as a dedicated bug triager who actively contributes patches upstream.

He has also contributed various patches and bug reports upstream to Mozilla Organization's Gecko Engine, in addition to maintaining several upstream projects across different organizations.

As a vouched Mozillian, Sanyam has earned the distinction of being an official representative of Mozilla, and his contributions have been recognized in the AUTHORS and credits sections of every browser ever released by Mozilla. He served as a mentor for PyDSA during RGSoC 2017.