Mishal Shanavas
@mishalshanavas
Backend developer who likes APIs, Linux, and cloud stuff
Kerala, India · CS Major, 2028
Open to backend internships and junior rolesAbout
Hey, I'm Mishal, a backend developer and CS student from Kerala. I mostly work with Python, Django, databases, and APIs—the parts of a product you do not see until they stop working. I also like automating boring jobs and turning suspiciously small ideas into cloud infrastructure. Lately I have been learning Rust, contributing to open source, maintaining an AUR package, and tweaking my Arch setup for the hundredth time. I sometimes help people on Reddit too.
Experience & open source
I took over an orphaned Arch Linux package and now keep it building against upstream NetworkManager. So far that has meant moving the build to Meson, fixing a libsoup3 compatibility issue, and learning that package maintenance is mostly detective work.
I worked on the Django backend behind MuLearn's Launchpad. My part covered JWT login, company onboarding, and job-management APIs, with plenty of back-and-forth with the frontend and design teams before everything behaved.
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Open-source activity
Open source · Hyperledger Besu: fixed malformed RLP transaction handling
Tracked down why one malformed transaction looked like a server crash, fixed the response, and added tests for eight ways clients could send bad input.
Open source · networkmanager-git: AUR package maintainer
Adopted an orphaned Arch package, moved its build to Meson, and fixed a libsoup3 issue so it behaves with upstream again.
Started role · Open-source Package Maintainer
networkmanager-git · 2026 - Present
Launch · Mappix
Put Mappix online: a browser experiment where projected physics reacts to sticky notes on a real wall.