Parthiv

Menon

Software Engineer /

Open Source Enthusiast

Between finding the next best alliteration and fixing the syntactical nitty gritties of my latest code lies the crux of my personality.

[f2a1c4b]work: Prev. SWE @ WMF

[7b92d6e]intern: MITACS @ Lakehead

[d0c5a3b]hack: Winner @ Hack NUACM

[3e811f9]project: Katalog Goodreads stats

Tech Stack

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All about work

Teaching Assistant

Northeastern University / January 2025 - December 2025

Software Engineer (contract)

Wikimedia Foundation / October 2022 - December 2023

Software Developer Intern

Indian Institute of Science / January 2023 - July 2023

MITACS Globalink Research Intern

Lakehead University / May 2022 - July 2022

Clubs and orgs

Technical Lead

null NEU / March 2024 - April 2025

Head of Web Development

Manipal Information Security Team / September 2021 - September 2022

Head of Writing

The MIT Post / October 2021 - October 2022

Writer, Content Team

Entrepreneurship Cell, Manipal / July 2021 - July 2022

Artist

The Editorial Board, Manipal / October 2019 - June 2020

Volunteering

Core Committee Member

Linux Users' Group, Manipal / September 2021 - August 2022

Developer, System Admin Team

Revels Cultural Fest, Manipal / February 2022 - April 2022

Website Developer

Entrepreneurship Cell, Manipal / October 2021 - July 2022

And all that's left is a body moving through space and time. 7,000 RPM. That's where you meet it. You feel it coming. It creeps up on you, close in your ear. Asks you a question. The only question that matters. Who are you?

- Ford v Ferrari

katalog

A comprehensive Goodreads data scraper and analytics dashboard that automatically tracks reading activity, provides detailed statistics, and visualizes reading habits over time.

nuk-ai

A real-time occupancy monitoring and prediction platform that leverages simulated IoT sensor data, machine learning, and conversational AI to provide intelligent insights about space availability at Snell Library, NEU, Boston.

The Heritage Lab

A digital platform unifying museum curators, curious minds, and casual readers across the world. I helped create custom themes, ACF components, and other custom HTML/CSS/JS modules to help site administrators build creative, engaging, and interactive content via their admin dashboard.

Digital Humanities Project

A digital exhibition that explores the proliferation of racism and sexism through a study of popular visual depictions of domestic workers on trade cards and postcards. The built from scratch dashboard serves as a digital archive where anyone can browse through the collection used for this research.

Debrief

An OpenAI powered Google Chrome extension that briefs you about your search results, right on your search results page.

Stock Portfolio Manager

A stock portfolio manager built in Java as both a CLI and Swing UI based application. It allows users to build and manage a portfolio of stocks and integrates the AlphaVantage API to pull real stock data.

hacks and
conferences

// Fun (tech) things I do

Winner / Ideathon Track

// Hack NUACM //

At a hackathon conducted by the ACM chapter of Northeastern University, Boston, my team and I emerged as winners in the Ideathon track for the most innovative idea pitched and implemented in 24 hours. We built a real-time occupancy monitoring and prediction platform that leverages simulated IoT sensor data, machine learning, and conversational AI to provide intelligent insights about space availability at Snell Library, NEU, Boston.

Mentor and Judge

// HackMIT 2025 //

I was a mentor and judge at HackMIT 2025 organized by MIT and having the distinction of being the largest student run hackathon in the USA. It was a full circle moment for me as I had previously participated in this very event during my undergraduate days in 2021. It was energizing to witness the variety, scale, and innovation of the ideas built by various teams within 24 hours on topics as vast as healthcare, education, environment, and more.

Participant / Volunteer

// Wikimedia Hackathons //

I was selected to participate in the Wikimedia Hackathons held at Tallinn (2024) and Istanbul (2025). Here, I met and worked with fellow Wikimedia enthusiasts and worked on solving issues pertinent to the community. It was at these hackathons that I brainstormed project ideas, interacted with members of the wider (sometimes non-technical) community, and ended up working on the Year in Review tool, the REST API Sandbox and many other exciting projects. In 2025, I also wrote a blog post describing a vounteer developer's experience at Wikimedia Hackathons.

Volunteer / Organizing Team

// Kubernetes Community Days, Bangalore, 2023 //

I contributed to the organization of KCD Bangalore 2023, a successful conference with over 500 registrations and active participation from members of the Kubernetes community. I coordinated pre-event logistics, including speaker management, merchandise ordering, and graphic design, while also helping out with specific tasks on both the event days.

Finalist

// Hack-a-noodle by Zomato //

Along with 3 other fellow students from my batch, I participated in the final round of Hack-a-noodle organized by Zomato and Blinkit in 2022. We built Liverr, a mobile application to facilitate peer-to-peer book sharing and community building. Although we did not end up winning the competition, we got to stay at the Zomato office for the 24 hour duration of the hackathon and interact with other teams working on simliar projects. We received mentorship and feedback on our projects directly from engineers at Zomato.

Top 10 Finisher

// 1 Million Seconds Hackathon //

We built Yozznet, the one-stop-shop app for all college needs. It was a full-stack application built using Flutter and a Node.js backend. It allowed users to find roommates, share books, review lost-and-found items, checkout food options around campus, and more.