Software Engineer • Distributed Systems • Open Source Maintainer
Portfolio • GitHub • LinkedIn • Email
- Distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines
- Observability and production reliability
- Open source ecosystems and contributor experience
- Built systems processing 1M+ events/sec with zero data loss
- Reduced incident detection time by ~60% using observability tooling
- Designed Kafka-based architectures for fault-tolerant systems
- Improved onboarding across open source projects used by global contributors
- Google Summer of Code org admin
- Reviewed 200+ proposals and coordinated contributors and mentors
- Led program execution, evaluations, and contributor support
- Improved onboarding and contributor experience
- Maintainer and community builder
- Built documentation, onboarding guides, and contribution workflows
- Created self-hosting and setup resources
- Focused on making observability tooling easier to adopt
- Technical Steering Committee member
- Led frontend migration to React and system integration
- Mentored contributors and improved onboarding
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go-logql (Go)
https://github.com/apoorvgarg-creator/go-logql
Structured query builder for Grafana Loki with validation and concurrency-safe design -
dj-electric (Python)
https://github.com/apoorvgarg-creator/dj-electric
Reactive UI layer for Django without WebSockets or custom JS
- Hugging Face Transformers
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
Started open source journey by contributing here
Learned large-scale collaboration, code reviews, and project structure
Backend
Django, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, event-driven systems
Observability
Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger
Languages
Python, Go, JavaScript
- Share learnings on system design and open source
- Mentor contributors and early engineers
- Focus on improving developer experience in open ecosystems
📫 Email: apoorv.portfolio@gmail.com
🤝 Mentorship: https://topmate.io/apoorv_garg10
🌐 Portfolio: https://apoorvgarg.in
Most of my work across Django, Observal, and RoboticsAcademy is volunteer-driven, focused on long-term sustainability, contributor experience, and ecosystem growth.