I’m Kunal, a pre-final year bachelor from New Delhi, India. my journey into tech has been anything but linear , started with cybersecurity (Kali Linux, Wireshark, OWASP tools), moved into backend with Node.js and databases, then got curious about what runs underneath. turns out Node.js is built on V8 which is written in C++, and that rabbit hole led me to c++. Along the way i built things that kept me hooked ~ a CLI tool, a backend-rich dashboard pulling from NASA & SpaceX APIs, and took a offline ping-pong game online using sockets. each project just opened another door.

outside of that i’ve been part of 8+ hackathons, reached finals in 3, served as technical head of our college tech society, and even got to sit on a judging panel at one event ~ which was a surreal experience. i like to stay busy, mediocrity genuinely bothers me.

i’ve always wanted to work on something close to defense, intelligence, or gaming engines - the kind of projects that actually matter and have depth. couldn’t find my way into the others yet, but gaming? nobody’s ever going to take that out of my blood. i still play 2005-2010 era games (blame the laptop specs lol) , so when i found Tiled on the GSoC list i didn’t even scroll further. this was it. no other org.

github username : @kunal649