Om Kapale
Backend Developer · Open Source Contributor
Final-year CSE student weaving scalable backends with Java, Spring Boot & Python — and contributing across the open-source ecosystem.
PEcAn Project
1416 contest rating
~3000+ lines of code
PEcAn · Zulip · FreeCAD …
Google Summer of Code 2026
Selected as the #1 ranked contributor globally at the PEcAn Project — out of a competitive worldwide applicant pool.
Increasing PEcAn Modularity
Refactoring the Trait-Meta-analysis-Configuration Pipeline of PEcAn — an ecological forecasting system — to decouple core modules, design cleaner interfaces and make the science more reproducible. Mentored by Mike Dietze (Boston University).
#1
Global selection rank
7+
PRs merged in GSoC
2000+
Lines of code changed
R · Py
Core languages
Featured Projects
Systems that solve real problems — from misinformation detection to live transit tracking.
The Open Source Journey
15+ merged pull requests across 5+ organisations — each one a story of real-world impact.
PEcAn Project · GSoC 2026
Google Summer of Code · Ecological Forecasting
Selected as the #1 ranked contributor globally for GSoC 2026 at the PEcAn Project. Refactoring the Trait-Meta-analysis-Configuration pipeline to make ecological forecasting more modular, under mentor Mike Dietze of Boston University.
Skills & Technologies
The stack I reach for when building clean, scalable systems.
Languages
Backend
Databases
AI / ML
Tools
Engineering with curiosity,
contributing with purpose.
I'm Om Shripad Kapale — a final-year Computer Science student at CSMSS Chh. Shahu College of Engineering. I build backend systems in Java & Spring Boot, explore ecological informatics and LLM integration, and spend my evenings shipping pull requests to open-source projects around the world.
Let's build something
that matters.
Open to SDE roles, open-source collaboration and interesting backend problems.