Ashwanth Kumar
Generalist & Builder
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About Me
My interest lies with Distributed Systems and DevOps. You can find full copy of my CV here.
My Lab (selected few)
September 2017
GoTLB
TCP Load Balancer for Marathon
GoTLB is a Go based TCP Load Balancer built for marathon apps.
August 2017
Gatequiz
Alexa Skill for preparing GATE
Gatequiz is an Alexa Skill that can be used to prepare for GATE exam. This was built for Devmerge 2017 Hackathon.
October 2015
Vamana2
Scale applications on cloud
Vamana2 helps you scale your applications on AWS (cloud agnostic actually) using custom application metrics. You can find my presentation of Vamana2 on Chennai October AWS Meetup here.
October 2015
Matsya
Automatically migrate between cheapest AZs on AWS
Matsya is a Java application that helps you move your fleet of machines across Availability Zones on AWS to be cost effective and fallback to On-Demand when there is a huge demand in Spot market.
October 2015
Chrome Tamil TTS Engine
TTS Engine powered by SSN Speech Lab
Tamil TTS Engine is a Chrome TTS Engine extension powered by Tamil HTS Speech Synthesiser developed at SSN Speech Lab.
September 2015
Meghadūta
Notification system
Meghadūta is a scalable (pun intended) notification system built at Amaz-ing Hackathon, Amazon Chennai. Check out the README.md for design and problem statement.
January 2015
Finder
Wayback Clone
Finder is a hobby project to build a Wayback clone without converting our existing crawled data which are in SequenceFiles to WARC / ARC formats. Architecture is very much inspired from Wayback but with a few changes. It can not only support HTML pages but finder can provide key+timestamp based access to any dataset.
November 2013
Amigo
Social Travel
Amigo (also called Qwerty) is a Ticket booking system, that allows you to find like minded people on the same bus you are travelling.
GoCD Plugins / Tools
April 2016
GoCD Agent Autoscalar
vasuki is a gocd agent autoscalar, which scales up the agents on demand and tears them down post that.
November 2015
GoCD Build Badge Notifier
gocd-build-badge-notifier is a notification plugin that pushes pipeline build status to an instance of Build Badge Server. It goes well with a hosted version of Build Badge Server.
November 2015
GoCD Build Badge Server
gocd-build-badge-server is NodeJS based server to serve your build badges for embedding them on Github / Bitbucket.
November 2015
GoCD Janitor
gocd-janitor is java based tool that helps you cleanup artifacts on GoCD safely considering each pipeline's VSM.
March 2015
Build GitHub PR
gocd-build-github-pull-requests is a SCM plugin to build Pull Requests for a Github Repo.
February 2015
Slack Build Notifier
gocd-slack-build-notifier is a plugin to push build notifications to Slack.
Marathon Tools
April 2016
marathon-logger
marathon-logger is an utility to push marathon app logs to syslog daemon. This is mainly built for non-docker based apps.
March 2016
marathon-alerts
marathon-alerts is a simple alerting mechanism for apps running on Marathon.
SDKs
October 2016
Suuchi
Distributed Data Systems Toolkit
Suuchi is toolkit to build distributed data systems, that uses gRPC under the hood as the communication medium. The overall goal of this project is to build pluggable components that can be easily composed by the developer to build a data system of desired characteristics.
January 2016
Slack - Go Webhooks
Go API to Slack Webhooks
slack-go-webhook provides Go API to push notifications to Slack.
October 2015
Scalding Dataflow
Run Google Cloud Dataflow Pipelines on in-house Hadoop cluster
scalding-dataflow is a pipeline runner implementation for Google Cloud Dataflow platform. You can run all your Pipelines transperently on GCE or in-house Hadoop cluster. This goes well with scalaflow.
January 2015
Slack - Java Webhooks
Java API to Slack Webhooks
slack-java-webhook provides Java API to Slack Webhooks.
December 2014
Predicates
Missing methods on (T => Boolean) functions
Predicates is a small scala library to pimp your (T) => Boolean functions with and, or and not methods.
November 2013
GoIbibo PHP5 SDK
GoIbibo PHP5 Client
GoIbibo PHP Client built during Techcrunch India Hackathon 2013.
March 2010
uClassify PHP5 SDK
uClassify PHP5 Client
PHP5 Class for accessing uClassify XML Services.
Projects during College
May 2012
BlueIgnis
A Social Analytics System
It helps you identify what people talk about your product on the social media of the web. My Final year project built and scaled to handle ~1M messages per minute (on AWS). System was built on Storm and Hadoop.
Find demo screencast of the product here.
January 2012
Scraphp
Web Crawler app in PHP
Scraphp (say Scraph, last p is silent) is a web crawling program, basically built to be a standalone executable which can be set a corn task to crawl websites and store extract useful content out of it. Initially created for hacker challenge posted by Indix on Jan 2012. Read blog post here, find the source code on my git repo.
October 2011
SubhDB
Document oriented datastore abstraction over MySQL
Abstraction produced over traditional MySQL (or any RDBMS), for Documented Oriented Datastore like interface. Implemented with PHP. More Details here.
June 2011
Its' Holiday
A Simple Trip Planner
A small Facebook Application created for KRDS's Facecode competition, won Third Place (got a iTouch) in that competition.
April 2011
Social Visualizer
An OpenGraph Visualizer
A Facebook application, that helps you visualize your Friends, Likes, etc from your Facebook profile in a graphical way.
Demo - here.
January 2010
Village Automation System
The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) - 2009
A village automation system created to collect funds from online and use it for increasing the welfare of the people. Created under the name - "The REFORMISTS" for The Great Mind Challenge, 2009.
Selected in TOP 20 from over 50000+ projects from all over India.