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+# Pranav Jerry
+
+### About Me
+
+> Automation and cybersecurity enthusiast, huge fan of FLOSS/swatantra
+> software and open source works, ex FOSS Club lead at college. Likes to
+> read the docs and random reference manuals. Has worked with Python,
+> shell scripts (bash, zsh & fish), PHP, regex, HTML, Tailwind CSS, a
+> little bit of JS, SQL, django and django rest framework. Uses Arch Linux
+> (btw), zsh, GNOME, Emacs, git
+
+
+### Portfolio Highlights
+
+
+#### History of Open Source Contributions:
+
+- [Wikipedia & sister projects
+  contributor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NonNerd), [500\+ edits
+  globally](https://meta3.toolforge.org/stalktoy/NonNerd)
+- Translated [Pepper&Carrot](https://www.peppercarrot.com), a multilingual
+  webcomic into
+  [Malayalam](https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/merge_requests/10)
+- Maintainer of [pybatmesh][], a daemon to manage mesh networks and
+  communicate during internet shutdowns in a GNU+Linux+systemd environment
+- Fixed handling of breaking change in [pynentry][], a pythonic wrapper
+  for GNU GPG's pinentry
+
+#### History of Community Engagement:
+
+- ex lead of [FOSS Club
+  STIST](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/foss-club-stist-updates/2463),
+  organised and hosted talks on open source topics and conducted Linux
+  installation parties
+- hangs around and helps people with problems on GNU/Linux usergroups and
+  FOSS United and FSUG rooms on Lemmy, Telegram and Matrix
+- volunteered for [Diasp.in](https://diasp.in), an XMPP service from
+  Kerala
+- 70 reputation on
+  [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/users/15531899/pranav)
+
+#### Highly Visible Technical Content:
+
+None
+
+#### Highly Used Software Tools:
+
+- [pybatmesh][], a script to communicate during internet shutdowns. It got
+  6 points on HN, and according to the repo stats was downloaded 80+ times
+
+#### Competitive Website Profiles:
+
+- 30+ reputations on [Exercism](https://exercism.org/profiles/libreinator)
+
+#### As a Top 100 Member:
+
+- Meeting like-minded people and collaborating with them
+- Finding solutions to socially relevant problems
+
+#### Career Plan:
+
+- In the immediate term, I plan to write my backlogs and complete my
+  degree.
+- I intend to work with FOSS for social causes in the long term.
+
+#### Thoughts on Kerala's Tech Ecosystem:
+
+- The startup ecosystem in Kerala could support the local people and
+  economy, without relying too much on Big Tech monopolies.
+- Integrating schools and universities with the industry will allow
+  students to get involved from an early stage and specialise where they
+  shine the most. In addition, reducing the importance of grades and
+  encouraging students to innovate and collaborate with others will go a
+  long way in improving the tech ecosystem in Kerala
+
+#### Profile Card:
+
+![Profile card](https://mulearn.org/embed/rank/pranav@mulearn
+"pranav@mulearn")
+
+[pybatmesh]: https://git.disroot.org/pranav/pybatmesh
+[pynentry]: https://pypi.org/project/pynentry