Software Engineer • Backend Engineer • B.Tech CSE student @ IIITDM Jabalpur

I'm passionate about backend systems, cloud-native development, and contributing to open source. I enjoy solving complex problems, learning distributed systems, and building reliable, production-ready systems.

📫 Email: barupalrekha3@gmail.com

• GitHub: darkknight8670
• LinkedIn: Vikas Barupal
• Codeforces: barupal_263
• LeetCode: barupal_8670
• Portfolio: darkknight8670/portfolio

• 🌱 Currently learning: System Design, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture
• 🔧 Interests: Backend Development, Cloud Native, Observability, Open Source Contributions
• 💬 Ask me about: System Design, Technical Collaboration, Backend Architecture
• 🚀 Actively contributing to: OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib, OpenSSF Scorecard

• ✅ Merged PR #49691: Retry on context.DeadlineExceeded in Prometheus Remote Write Exporter
• ✅ Merged PR #50070: receiver/sqlserver: Preserve query plan when attribute obfuscation fails
• 🔄 Active contributor — ongoing improvements, bug fixes, and code reviews

• ✅ Contributed fixes for GitLab tarball extraction and reliability improvements
• 🔄 Working on repository quality metrics and test coverage enhancements
• Repository

• OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib - Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector (Go)
• OpenSSF Scorecard - Security health metrics for open source projects (Go)
• Fusion - Full-stack project management system
• Fusion Client - React client for Fusion application

• Hostel Management System - Comprehensive hostel management application (JavaScript)
• EV Charging Deployment - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure platform (JavaScript)
• Team Task Manager - Collaborative task management tool (JavaScript)
• Expenses Tracker - Personal finance management application

• Brain Tumor Detection - Machine learning project for medical imaging (Jupyter Notebook)
• Image Forgery Detection - Deep learning for image authentication (Jupyter Notebook)
• Cricklytics - Cricket data analytics and visualization (Jupyter Notebook)

• P2P EV Charging - Peer-to-peer electric vehicle charging using blockchain (JavaScript)
• V2V EV Charging - Vehicle-to-vehicle charging system (TypeScript)

• Rajasthan CET Mock Center - Mock exam platform (TypeScript)
• Reel Pro ImageKit - Media management tool (TypeScript)
• Javascript Codes - JavaScript tutorial series code repository

Last updated: 2026-08-29 | Feel free to reach out for collaboration opportunities!