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🧑‍💻 About Me

class Utkal:
    name       = "Utkal Singh"
    handle     = "@Utkal059"
    role       = ["Linux Kernel Contributor", "CS Student", "AI/ML Enthusiast"]
    gsoc       = "2026 Applicant → erofs / Linux kernel"

    passions   = ["artificial intelligence", "open source", "filesystems", "quantum computing"]
    currently  = ["deep learning architectures", "kernel internals", "CUDA programming"]

    tools      = ["C", "Python", "PyTorch", "Git", "Linux", "Bash", "Docker"]
    env        = "WSL Ubuntu + VS Code"

    fun_fact   = "Sent 70+ patches to linux-erofs in ~2 weeks 🐧"
    ask_me     = "filesystems · AI/ML · quantum computing · open source strategy"

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🤖 AI/ML Interests

Area	What I'm Exploring
🧠 Deep Learning	CNNs, Transformers, attention mechanisms
🔬 Research + OSS AI	Reproducible ML, contributing to open AI tooling
⚡ Systems for ML	Bridging low-level C systems knowledge with ML infra
🌌 Quantum Computing	Multi-qubit gates, Bell states, quantum algorithms

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🛠️ Tech Stack

AI / ML

Systems & Kernel

Languages & Tools

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🔧 Open Source Contributions

🐧 Linux Kernel / erofs-utils

Patches submitted via git send-email to [email protected]

Patch	Location	Status
h_shared_count validation	fs/erofs/xattr.c	✅ Reviewed-by Gao Xiang
ZSTD decompression bug series	fs/erofs/zdata.c	📬 Sent to mailing list
Deflate buffer overflow fix (64 MiB cap)	lib/decompress.c	✅ Merged
NULL check after strdup()	lib/tar.c	✅ Merged
Error code propagation fix	lib/io.c	✅ First upstream patch
fsck xattr verification fix	fsck/main.c	✅ Merged
Directory recursion depth limit	lib/dir.c	✅ Merged

🔬 MoganLab/mogan (Scientific Editor)

• PR #2914 — fix(typeset): suppress ghost borders in vertically-spanned table cells
• PR #2915 — fix tab rendering in document editor

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📊 GitHub Stats

 

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🐍 Contribution Snake

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🏆 GitHub Trophies

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💬 Random Dev Quote

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📬 Connect With Me

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"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."