blog/about.markdown

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title: About
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Hello everyone!!

<p style='text-align: justify;'>I am Sanchayan Maity and my life revolves
around electronics, programming, music and books. Long term goals are to
learn Haskell, compilers, Mathematics and operating/distributed systems in
depth.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Used to live in Mumbai and worked as an
Embedded Systems Engineer from July 2010 to 2012 at Godrej Security Solutions,
a sub division of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. Settled in Bangalore now.
Worked at [Toradex](https://www.toradex.com/) from 2013-2017 as a Development
Engineer on Linux for their downstream BSP while also making [upstream
contributions](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=sanchayan).
Spend two years at Harman International where I worked on custom Linux FPGA
driver for a frame grabber system. Currently am working at
[asymptotic.io](https://asymptotic.io) where my work mostly involves working
with GStreamer and also Pipewire and Pulseaudio. Was lucky enough to get to
work on Haskell for 8 months for a client as my very first assignment.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Am passionate about open source and also
organise and speak at the [Bangalore
Haskell](https://www.meetup.com/The-Bangalore-Haskell-User-Group/) and
[Rust](https://hasgeek.com/rustlangin) meetup groups. Come say hello.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of
man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only
absolute.”
—Ayn Rand.</p>

# Open source contributions

- [GStreamer](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&author_username=SanchayanMaity)
- [gst-plugins-rs](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&author_username=SanchayanMaity)
- [Linux](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=Sanchayan+Maity)
- [u-boot](https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commits/master?search=Sanchayan%20Maity)
- [PipeWire](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&author_username=SanchayanMaity)
- [PulseAudio](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&author_username=SanchayanMaity)

# Talks

- [Bridging WebRTC and SIP using GStreamer & SIPjs](https://gstconf.ubicast.tv/videos/bridging-webrtc-and-sip-using-gstreamer-sipjs/)
- [What's next for Bluetooth in PulseAudio?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU8Hjt2h6GQ)
- [Using Rust and GStreamer for building multimedia pipelines](https://hasgeek.com/rustlang/rustlang-mini-conference/schedule/using-rust-for-building-multimedia-pipelines-using-gstreamer-UfW59v9esDeZut5mXUVXhy)
- [Free Monads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhu1UQel5eo)
- [Lens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sAvCCAz8DQ)

# Blog

- [sanchayanmaity.net](https://sanchayanmaity.net)

# Tools

- **desktop**: sway
- **CLI**: neovim, tmux, alacritty, foot, fzf, rg
- **shell**: fish
- **browser**: firefox with [tridactyl](https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl)
- ❤️  **Languages**: C, Rust,  Haskell, PureScript
- 💔 **Languages**: Python, JavaScript, Typescript

# dotfiles

- [https://git.sanchayanmaity.net/sanchayanmaity/dotfiles](https://git.sanchayanmaity.net/sanchayanmaity/dotfiles)
- [https://codeberg.org/sanchayanmaity/dotfiles](https://codeberg.org/sanchayanmaity/dotfiles)

# Give up GitHub

- [Forgejo](https://git.sanchayanmaity.net/sanchayanmaity)
- [CodeBerg](https://codeberg.org/sanchayanmaity)
- [GitLab](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/SanchayanMaity)

# Mastodon

- [@ Self hosted domain](https://sanchayanmaity.com/@sanchayan)
- [@ Functional Cafe](https://functional.cafe/@sanchayan)

## Keys

 Public key used for signing:

```bash
41B3 422B 0370 3BF5 FD03  FAFB 6F6A 0609 C120 38F3
```

Also available as DNS TXT record.

```bash
dig TXT openpgp.sanchayanmaity.net +short | sed 's/"//g'
```

Also available via Web Key Directory at https://keys.openpgp.org/.

```bash
gpg --locate-keys --auto-key-locate clear,nodefault,wkd sanchayanmaity.net
```