Redshift
★ 720WebGL · open survey catalogs · WASM
"A galaxy catalog browser — 1.4M galaxies rendered with LOD streaming at 60 fps on a laptop."
1.4M galaxies at 60 fps · filter by redshift, type & survey · 720 stars in 9 months
accretion disk · transmission 001
GARVIT PANDIA
Engineer of systems that keep their promises
- 1.4M galaxies catalogued
- 1,900★ flagship repo — Aphelion
- 11 variable-star candidates flagged
- 310k event-day sessions — Umbra
- 2 candidates confirmed by follow-up
- 176 OSS pull requests merged
descend
[ 01 · signal ]
Falling in, broadcasting out
Who is behind the signal — and what the disk picked up along the way.
I'm Garvit Pandia — an engineer of systems that keep their promises, from Jalandhar, India, with a B.Tech in Computer Science from Kandhari Institute of Technology and a minor in mathematics. I build tools that live at the edges: star catalogs you can diff in ninety seconds, orbits rendered with real Keplerian math, and ingestion tiers that survive a monsoon. The orbit below holds the debris — projects, achievements, and transmissions from the people who watched me build.
— inbound transmissions —
[00:00:07]
He rebuilt our ingestion tier and somehow made the migration boring. That is the highest compliment I can give an engineer.
— Arjun Bhaskar, Principal Engineer, Velora Systems
[00:00:13]
He took our sensor mess and returned a forecast the agriculture officers actually trust. That is rarer than it sounds.
— Nikhil Verma, CTO, Tallgrass Analytics
[00:00:21]
The review culture in Harpoon is the best I've seen in any open-source project. He built that with patience, one PR at a time.
— Arman Sheikh, maintainer, Harpoon
[00:00:29]
He runs the studio like a good library: quiet, organized, and everything exactly where it should be when you need it.
— Leela Iyer, Co-founder, Kite & Crane Studio
[00:00:37]
He found three bugs in our data pipeline that would have surfaced during harvest. The harvest thanked him.
— Shreya Pillai, UX Researcher, Velora Systems[ 02 · inner orbit ]
Projects — ring segments of the disk
Six things that escaped the gravity well and kept orbiting.
Aphelion
★ 1.9kTypeScript · WebGL · ephemeris data
"Orbit visualization with real math — accurate Keplerian rendering, time scrubbing, 1,400 catalog bodies."
1,400 catalog bodies · 12 interactive lessons · 1.9k stars · cited in 3 astro-education roundups
Tycho
★ 350Rust · Parquet · CLI
"Star catalogs, diffed — compares 2 GB catalogs in 90 seconds and flags moving objects."
2 GB in 90s · 11 variable-star candidates flagged · 2 confirmed · 350 stars
Parsec
★ 380Python · plate solving · web UI
"Parallax for the backyard astronomer — measures stellar distance from two phone photos of the same starfield."
11% median error vs catalog values · 900+ submissions · 380 stars
Umbra
★ 460TypeScript · astro math · PWA
"Eclipse prediction you can hold — site-specific timings with terrain-aware duration, offline at the viewing site."
94% saw totality in the 2024 window · 310k event-day sessions · works offline
Cusp
★ 2.8k/dayPython · D3 · public satellite feeds
"Magnetosphere data for non-specialists — live aurora-forecast maps from magnetometer networks."
82% correct "go outside" calls · 15 sources merged · 2,800 daily users at solar max
[ 03 · mass log ]
Achievements — debris with mass
Eleven entries, indexed as the disk turns.
01
GitHub Trending — featured 3× in 2024 (flagship repos Harpoon & Rhizome)
02
Harpoon — 3.2k stars · 48 contributors (adopted by 2 serverless platforms)
03
Rhizome — 2.6k stars · 1,100 forks (30% node-churn survival in fault-injection tests)
04
176 OSS pull requests merged — 31 first-time contributors mentored to merge
05
4 npm packages published — ~320k combined weekly downloads
06
2 maintained crates on crates.io — ~1.1M combined downloads
07
9,800+ combined GitHub stars across 12 repos (2026)
08
FOSS India — top contributors list (2025)
09
GitHub Star of the Week (Rhizome, Sep 2025)
10
Speaker — CLI Fest 2024 — "Terminals as Product"
11
Paper — Journal of Open Tools & Systems "Low-Overhead Tracing for Single-Binary Observability" (2025)
[ 04 · orbital history ]
Experience & spectral bands
Where the orbit has been, and what it's made of.
Junior Software Engineer
Cinderforge Labs (developer tooling)
Jun 2024 – Apr 2025
"Owned the Cairn metrics store — 1.2M points/sec on ARM, 14-month field uptime; took tracing onboarding from 60% to 99.9%."
Teaching Assistant — Data Structures
Kandhari Institute of Technology
Jan 2023 – May 2024
"Ran weekly problem-solving labs for 160 students across 4 batches; rebuilt the lab manual — completion rate up 21%."
Software Engineer Intern
Velora Systems (climate data platform)
May–Jul 2022
"Owned a streaming-aggregation service that cut one platform's query latency 4×; made 2 years of sensor history queryable in under a second."
Speaker & Mentor
independent — conferences & campuses
2023 – present
"9 talks and workshops — CLI Fest, EdgeCon India, Design Systems India, 3 university guest lectures; judged 4 regional hackathons."
Open Source Maintainer
independent — Harpoon & Rhizome
2021 – present
"Maintains 12 repos — flagships Harpoon (3.2k★) and Rhizome (2.6k★); 176 community PRs merged; release trains on a written schedule."
languages
TypeScript94
Python93
C++72
Rust84
Go78
SQL88
AI / ML
PyTorch86
ONNX Runtime84
retrieval systems88
evaluation harnesses90
LLM orchestration85
edge inference84
web / creative
React93
Next.js88
Canvas 2D90
Three.js85
WebGL80
CSS motion & animation94
systems / cloud
Linux88
Docker86
Kubernetes78
PostgreSQL90
Redis84
AWS82
176 PRs merged across 12 repos · 31 first-time contributors mentored to merge
Harpoon maintainer (3.2k★) · Rhizome maintainer (2.6k★ · 1,100 forks)
46 projects shipped end-to-end · 21 client builds · 6 hackathon wins · 3 papers
OSS footprints: GitHub · crates.io · npm (4 published packages, ~320k weekly downloads)
[ 05 · noise floor ]
What the disk echoes back
[ 06 · transmitting at the horizon ]
Contact — the horizon listens
Last signal before the fall. It reaches a real inbox at the speed of light.
Send a transmission
Direct channels
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B.Tech Computer Science, Kandhari Institute of Technology · Aug 2020 – May 2024
Jalandhar, India · replies within one orbit