Mukund

I am a computer programmer by profession. Some visitors may know me as muks in commit logs and on IRC. I have an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Pondicherry University. I am a member of ACM (which I mostly use to access their digital library) and the GNOME Foundation.

Projects and stuff

Some of my free software contributions follow. My résumé (PDF format) lists others including non-free ones.

• Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP proxy for POSIX operating systems. I am the maintainer of this project.
• GIMP is a raster graphics editing program similar to Photoshop. I am a developer on this project.
• During late 2003, several statistics functions in the spreadsheet application of the OpenOffice.org office suite were fixed. I received a bounty from the GNOME Foundation and Ximian (now Novell) for it.
• During October 2004, Marius Eriksen of Google presented an interesting matrix multiplication problem (also available in plain TeX) as a challenge while chatting. He mentioned this was one he wouldn't ask during recruiting because it was not straightforward. A solution program was written.
• In July 2000, a fingerd program was written for SourceForge.net to provide information about registered users and their projects. This was incorporated into their Alexandria code distribution. It is now in the GForge distribution. I also did security audits of the Alexandria codebase.
• Conic Planet is a CGI application which renders a photo-realistic image of the Earth and other planets. It is based on Xplanet and has support for azimuthal, mercator, mollweide, orthographic and rectangular projections.
• DH2C is a super-fast Die Hard 2 virus scanner and cleaner for DOS, written in 8086 assembly.
• There is also a directory of patches written over time.

If you came here looking for an MNG plug-in, it is now part of GIMP and should be available in your Linux distribution if it isn't more than a few years old.