About Me

Hi, I am Bishwa Bhusan Saha. I am currently a final year student at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus and am dual majoring in M.Sc. Economics and B.E. Computer Science. I am a Linux and Open Source enthusiast with an interest in desktop software and backend development.

Experience

Vilia SARL

Technical Research & Prototyping Engineer (Contract)

Nov 2025 — Mar 2026

Technical Research & Prototyping Engineer (Contract)

Nov 2025 — Mar 2026

• Worked on an low-latency PWA communication system, researching real-time protocols (WebSockets, HTTP long polling) and analyzing production applications (Mattermost, Zulip, Matrix)
• Built a full-stack PWA-based real-time chat proof-of-concept with WebSocket communication, backend message handling, and service worker support for offline deployment
• Engineered reliable connection and synchronization mechanisms, including exponential backoff for reconnections, missed-message recovery, lifecycle aware resync, and background push notifications

Vilia SARL

Open Source Software Developer (Contract)

Jun 2025 — Jul 2025

Open Source Software Developer (Contract)

Jun 2025 — Jul 2025

• Designed and implemented a fullscreen widget for the Flowkeeper pomodoro desktop app using PySide6, contributing 325 additions across 18 files
• Implemented keyboard shortcuts, configurable fonts, and warning notifications to improve usability
• Tested across Windows, Wayland, and X11 environments to ensure cross-platform consistency
• Collaborated in code review process with 11 reviews and 26 comments

Caarya Innovative Solutions Private Limited

Software Intern

May 2024 — Jul 2024

Software Intern

May 2024 — Jul 2024

• Developed a full-stack Flask web application with a joblib-based ML model to predict Valorant player roles from gameplay statistics
• Implemented authentication and role-based workflows using Flask-Login, SQLAlchemy, and Flask-WTF
• Designed responsive front-end using Bootstrap and Jinja2 and built RESTful APIs for real-time predictions

Projects

Koncentro

• Built a cross platform productivity desktop app with Pomodoro, task management, and workspace-based website controls
• Implemented website blocking using a local mitmproxy instance capable of blocking over 1000 websites
• Implemented SQLite backed database persistence with Alembic migrations and built an in-app onboarding tutorial
• Automated CI/CD pipelines to compile the application with Nuitka and package releases for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Achieved 14,000+ downloads, features on makeuseof.com, itsfoss.com, and xda-developers.com, and 180+ GitHub stars

PySide6MitmproxySQLAlchemy

GitHub

Ferron Proxy Manager

• Developed a self hostable configuration management interface using a Backend-for-Frontend architecture with SvelteKit frontend and FastAPI backend for Ferron Web Server
• Built dynamic Ferron configuration generator with SQLite-backed storage, producing KDL files using Jinja2 templates
• Implemented secure authentication using rotating access and refresh JWT tokens along with rate limited API endpoints
• Packaged as a multi-container Docker deployment, achieving 1000+ downloads

SvelteKitFastAPISQLModelPydanticDocker

GitHub

Uniproxy

• Developed a cross-platform Python library to manage system proxy settings across Linux, macOS, and Windows
• Implemented cross-platform environment variable management and error handling, with Linux XDG configuration
• Implemented system integration using Windows Registry, networksetup on macOS, and gsettings/kreadconfig6 on Linux

Python

GitHub

Automated UI Testing

• Automated cross-platform web and mobile UI testing for MakeMyTrip and Goibibo using Appium and Selenium
• Measured interaction steps and task completion times to synthesize data-driven UI/UX improvements

AppiumSelenium

GitHub

Skills

Python

Java

Flask

FastAPI

SvelteKit

PySide6

SQLAlchemy

SQLModel

Pydantic

Docker

Git

GitHub Actions

Pytest

Selenium

Linux

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