Anand Panchbhai
Coordinator · 2020–21
Co-Founder & CTO, Logy.AI — scaling clinically-validated AI screening to 10M+ patients
One of OpenLake's founding coordinators and a GSoC mentor (2020 & 2021) who set its open-source-research DNA.
Hall of Fame.
The coordinators and mentors whose leadership shaped OpenLake — now building at Google, Amazon, Canonical, D. E. Shaw, EPFL, Stanford and beyond. Their work laid the foundation for the community we have today.
Kumar Shivendu
Coordinator · 2021–22
GSoC 2021 recipient — currently Software Engineer at Qdrant
Established OpenLake's foundation, mentored the first generation of contributors and set up the initial project structure.
Shashwat Jaiswal
Coordinator · 2021–22
Student Researcher at Google · Research Assistant at UIUC & UBC · President of India Gold Medal recipient
Pioneered research initiatives and international collaboration programs, establishing academic partnerships.
Gopal Ramesh Dahale
Mentor · 2021–22
Quantum ML researcher, MSc @ EPFL — GSoC mentor @ ML4SCI
Guided contributors into quantum computing and research-grade open source.
Ananya Hooda
Mentor · 2022–23
Researcher @ Stanford GSB — ex-Google, UC Berkeley & University of Toronto (NLP/LLMs)
Brought a research-first culture, mentoring members toward ML and academia.
Sudeep Ranjan Sahoo
Mentor · 2022–24
Business Architecture Analyst @ Accenture Japan — Director's Gold Medalist, IIT Bhilai
Led the Project Seamless smart-campus platform and mentored across multiple cohorts.
Madhur Jain
Coordinator · 2023–24
GSoC 2023 recipient — currently Software Engineer at Canonical
Led a major infrastructure overhaul and established CI/CD practices across all projects.
Tushar Bansal
Coordinator · 2023–24
Intern at Amazon / Google / Adani — currently SWE 2 at Google
Scaled the project portfolio from 5 to 15+ projects and established industry partnerships.
Amay Dixit
Coordinator · 2024–26
LFX & OpenSSF'26 · Polaris Fellow · C4GT DMP'25 @ MOSIP
Concieved the idea of OpenLake as a Society spanning multiple domains; drove contributions to MOSIP and grew the contributor base.
Sumit Pathak
Coordinator · 2024–25
Associate Software Engineer @ Canonical — backend & distributed systems
Coordinated projects and events; steered the community's infra and backend work.
Nishchay Rajput
Coordinator · 2024–25
Member of Technical Staff @ Singulr AI — backend & full-stack, open-source contributor
Coordinated the community and shipped platforms adopted by 1,200+ students.
Nidhi Singh
Mentor · 2024–25
SDE @ Amazon — AI/ML researcher, 3× IEEE, ex-Red Hat (GSoC mentor)
Mentored contributors in ML systems, MLOps and distributed infrastructure.
Shashank Pant
Mentor · 2024–25
Member Technical @ D. E. Shaw — high-performance, low-latency quant systems
Mentored on backend development, system design and distributed systems.
Hemanth Kumar Reddy
Mentor · 2024–25
Software Engineer @ Ocrolus — full-stack developer
Mentored contributors on full-stack web and design.