Shiv Shanmugam

Developer in India

About

Developer & Open Source Enthusiast

Projects

Ongoing

A note-taking app built for those who get work done. Flowplane removes friction from your workflow by integrating tools to automatically capture, organize, and analyze information.

Built for students, by students.

flowplane.shivs.me

2023

Researched, scripted, and edited short-form computer science content on Instagram. Got 400+ followers and 25k+ views. Collaborated w/ a major creator.

instagram.com/cs.explained

Side Projects

2023

♟️A Rust-based Chess Engine.

Features: Negamax with Alpha-Beta pruning, PeSTO evaluation function, Iterative deepening with PV table, Quiescence search, Transposition table.

github.com/shhivv/deltoid

2023

⏱️ Run & deploy any Git repo in a single command

github.com/shhivv/gitrun

2023

An asynchronous API wrapper for the Piston API

github.com/shhivv/pyston

2022
Dive

🔎 Search millions of files at lightning-fast speeds to find what you are looking for!

github.com/shhivv/dive

2022

🚀 The next-gen HTTP client library for Python

github.com/shhivv/radial

Writing

2024

A deep dive into how computers generate random numbers, and how they aren't really random.

2023

A peak into the magic behind image optimization on the web

Work Experience

2022 — 2022
OSS Developer at Dimension

Worked on Dimension's open-source projects, specifically Fleet and Dock

Volunteering

2024 — Now
Developer at SmartBharat

Worked towards improving the accessibility of computer education for government school students in India.

Contact

GitHub