Hello everyone!

I am Aravinda, Open Source enthusiast from Bengaluru, India.

I got into Open Source in 2006. I contribute to many projects and maintain a few Projects.

Creator of Chitra - 2D Graphics library for Crystal programming

Chitra is a 2D Graphics library for Crystal Programming language. Syntax is heavily inspired by Processing and Drawbot. Read more about Chitra here.

Repo: https://github.com/aravindavk/chitra

Creator of Sanka - ASCII to Unicode and Unicode to ASCII converter for Kannada language

Sanka is a webapp to convert the Kannada text written in ASCII to Unicode or vice versa. Online app is used by more than 10K users per day. link

Repo: https://github.com/aravindavk/sanka

GlusterFS Core team member

I am part of GlusterFS core team and maintain Geo-replication, Changelog and many other features. I developed many tools to improve the Gluster user experience and monitoring.

Repo: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs, https://github.com/gluster/gstatus, https://github.com/kadalu/gdash, https://github.com/kadalu/gluster-metrics-exporter

Maintainer of Kadalu Storage

Kadalu Storage is an Opinionated distributed Storage solution based on GlusterFS. Kadalu Storage is natively integrated with the Kubernetes APIs and provides Persistence Storage for the apps running on Kubernetes. Kadalu Storage also provides Storage for on-premise and Cloud applications.

Repo: https://github.com/kadalu

Kannada language analysis utilities

Collection of utilities to analyse Kannada language text.

Repo: https://github.com/aravindavk/kannada

Maintainer of Gubbi and Navilu Fonts

I maintain two Kannada fonts. Navilu is handwriting font and Gubbi is regular font used for books and other publications.

Repos: https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi and https://github.com/aravindavk/Navilu