# About Me

I’m Yash Kumar Verma

I started my journey with [FOSSASIA](https://fossasia.org/) and was an active contributor whilst participating in Google CodeIn ([finalist in 2017](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/01/google-code-in-2017-winners.html)) for three years. I worked on numerous projects, found bugs & submitted improvements.

I also maintained one project at FOSSASIA, [Labyrinth](https://github.com/fossasia/labyrinth) with 1.4k+ 🌟 start and 150+ forks. That was the start of my open-source journey.

In 1st year, I came across [CircuitVerse](https://circuitverse.org/) in an online lab during college classes. It was an OSS. During the semester, I implemented one new component in the simulator that we needed for our experiments in college and currently its being used all over the world!

Later I was honored to be selected as the **Google Season of Docs Mentor** for the project ([listed here](https://github.com/CircuitVerse/CircuitVerse/wiki/Google-Season-of-Docs-2020)). As of now, I perform the roles of a maintainer in two CircuitVerse Projects, and am a member of the organization.

I came to know about MLH Fellowship. I applied into MLH the fellowship, and was honored to be part of ~120 students selected in the very first batch. I got the opportunity to work along-with a very talented team, under the guidance of [Jani Eväkallio](https://jevakallio.dev/) and [Rick Hanlon II](https://github.com/rickhanlonii) (from Facebook). I worked on Facebook's [React Native Framework](https://github.com/facebook/react-native)

I specifically worked on decoupling the RNTester application from the React mono-repo, refactoring the codebase, and redesigning the application. This was a challenging and exciting task, with a steep learning curve and tight schedule.

The work is now being used in production by Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla and other organizations that use react native and its derivatives.

I learned a lot about scalable apps, large codebases, testing, architectures, team word, effort estimation, and also time management as I had college parallel to the 40-hour/week fellowship.

As of now, I lead [ACM-VIT](https://acmvit.in/), a chapter affiliated to [Association for Computing Machinery](https://www.acm.org/) as Technical Director.

Current: I am working for [caMicroScope](http://camicroscope.org/) under Google Summer of Code (**GSoC**). Details of the projects are [shared here](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5718561483390976).

Thanks Again !
Best,
Yash Kumar Verma