Ankit Priyarup

To give context to this letter of recommendation it is important to understand the social mission of Bharosa Club. It is to replace bad selling with good selling and to make everyone prosperous. Bharosa had over twenty employees and offices but when Ankit did his internship in the summer of 2017, we had no employees and offices and the company wa run by the founders (my wife and me). We cut back on employees and offices to cut our burn rate and to give us more runway to fulfil our vision.

We were looking for interns who would be motivated by our mission and who could deliver a mobile app which would be 80% world-class at a fraction of the cost that it would take to make a world-class app from a company.

The fact that Ankit did this project while pursuing his studies shows his work ethic and social commitment. His role in the project was to develop the code for the app. He worked with other team members on giving us a proposal and on the UI/UX. You can check out the app and download it. It has a significant number of downloads globally. We were impressed by the quality of the work done and the time taken to complete it. He also collaborated in delivering an iOS version even though he had not done iOS work before. This showed us that he was capable of getting out of his comfort zone and learning quickly.

We were both on the founding team of PayPal so we are used to working in Silicon Valley and it takes a lot to impress us. Our association with Ankit was short but he did impress us in the brief interaction we had.

Ankit worked as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student this summer for Godot Community and I was one of his mentors. I watched Ankit working on his project GDscript Language Protocol Server (LSP) through the whole summer, from assessing his proposal, through all his development and finally the final evaluation.

Ankit is a very self-motivated person. He made a well-polished proposal right at the beginning, which clearly organized and presented his initial designs. He also completed a workable prototype for both the VScode plugin for GDscript and LSP server even before the GSoC started. It really distinguished him from other applicants.

Through the three-month development process, Ankit is always confident and efficient in problem-solving. He went through a list of tasks and accomplished them one by one very quickly with good implementations. He also did tests on his own implementation and found several hidden issues which were fixed or actively tracked by him later.

The final result delivered by Ankit of GSoC is very good as well. He completed implementing the most used interfaces of Language Protocol in the LSP server embedded in Godot Editor. He also made improvements to an existing GDscript VScode plugin to utilize the LSP server, which starts getting the attention of Godot Engine users.

Ankit Priyarup worked as a Computer Science Programmer Intern for 3 months with Smart IOPS India Research Center during the summer of 2019. Ankit has been very selfmotivated has been a quick learner, made noteworthy contributions to the project and has been able to get integrated with the rest of the team members quite well. He has been able to significantly impress his senior team members in a short span.

Ankit worked on optimizing parity check matrix by increasing the minimum girth of a LDPC code. This problem required application of graph theory, set theory and operations on matrices. Impressively, Ankit could grasp the problem statement very well, applied his understanding to successfully writing efficient programs in C++. He optimized his programs for run-time by enabling multi-core operations.

Ankit’s efforts resulted in significant improvement of parity check matrix. Ankit worked in my organization, reporting to one of the senior team members. This recommendation has been generated considering feedback from the senior team member to whom Ankit was reporting to.