Anand Chowdhary
GitHub Star, Forbes 30 Under 30, Y Combinator Founder
Groningen, The Netherlands
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Anand Chowdhary is a technology entrepreneur, designer, and engineer. He is the co-founder of FirstQuadrant, an AI sales platform funded by Y Combinator. He is one of the world's top open source contributors, awarded as a GitHub Star in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. He is also a consultant and advisor to several startups.
He has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 (Asia 2018), Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Times)’s list of 50 most-innovative entrepreneurs and professional under 35 in the Netherlands, and in publications such as TechCrunch, The Next Web, HuffPost, Hindustan Times, and Time Out magazine.
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Helping fight COVID-19 using open source code
In this talk, we'll discuss how the open source community and GitHub have been working together to fight the impact COVID-19. During the pandemic, I moved back to India and helped start Karuna 2020, a nonprofit that distributed meals to thousands of migrant laborers and masks to frontline workers. My team and I ended up building an open source platform on top of GitHub Actions to track donations, volunteers, distributions, etc., and built a fully automated open source system to run the nonprofit.
In this session, participants will learn:
- How to use open source for good
- How to create a fully-automated pipeline using GitHub Actions, TypeScript and connect it to Airtable, Pupeteer, etc.
- How the open source community came together during Covid-19
- Open innovation and top Covid-19 tracking projects
Recording: https://anandchowdhary.com/events/talks/helping-fight-covid-19-using-github
Open source as a Startup
This talk is for everyone who's interested in open source + everyone who's interested in entrepreneurship/startups!
I reflect on journey -- from building an open edtech platform for K-12 students (Class Rebels), to an open source browser extension for people with dyslexia that became an accessibility technology company with several disabled-friendly products (Oswald Labs), to starting a Y Combinator-funded company in a completely different space (Pabio, furniture rental with interior design), and building and launching an open source project with 10k+ stars (Upptime).
In this session, participants will learn:
- How Upptime works using GitHub Actions, GitHub Issues, and GitHub Pages
- Open source monetization options like dual licensing
- Fundraising as an open source company
- Benefits of investing in open source as a startup
- Value and usefulness of open source software
Recording: https://anandchowdhary.com/events/talks/how-to-open-source-as-a-startup
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