Google Summer of Code Contributor
May 2026 — PresentSelected under CNCF to develop Meshery, a cloud-native multi-mesh management platform for Kubernetes environments.
GSoC 2026 Contributor @Meshery (CNCF)
Khusham Bansal
Cloud-Native & AI Systems · India
Hi, I'm Khusham, a Computer Engineering student at Thapar Institute (CGPA 8.92) and a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor at Meshery (CNCF/Layer5), working across AI reliability, distributed systems, and full-stack product engineering.
I ground LLMs with knowledge graphs, build agentic systems and distributed infrastructure, and ship product surfaces that load fast.
My teammates are scattered across India and the US — Seattle, South Carolina, and a Slack channel that never sleeps. I've done enough timezone math by now that I think in UTC and consider 6am a perfectly reasonable time to review a PR.
Experience
Where I've shipped and researched
Layer5 / Meshery (CNCF)
Open Source Contributor
Dec 2025 — Apr 2026Merged 18 PRs before GSoC selection (45 ecosystem-wide): Kanvas 11, meshery.io 4, layer5.io 3.
Projects
Things I've built
Local personal AI agent with LangGraph orchestration (plan → tool calls → results), a FastAPI backend, a React cockpit, and SQLite + FTS5 RAG memory spanning semantic, episodic, and procedural recall with background consolidation. MCP gateway for Gmail, Calendar, and search, with human-in-the-loop approval on high-risk sends.
LangGraphFastAPIReactSQLiteMCP
Plans property-carrying HGV trips and generates FMCSA driver daily logs under the 70hr/8-day HOS ruleset — routing, required fuel/pickup/drop-off stops, and one log sheet per calendar day in home-terminal time.
DjangoDRFReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLTailwind
GitHub Activity
Commits, PRs, and reviews
Where the PRs landed
- 70+mesheryUI reliability, registry, Sistent
- 11kanvascursors, GitOps, collaboration
- 4meshery.iosite and program pages
- 3layer5.iomobile and navigation
Tech Stack
The tools I reach for
Languages
C/C++
Go
Python
TypeScript
JavaScriptAI / ML
PyTorch
TensorFlow
OpenCVscikit-learnWeb
React
Node.js
Express
Tailwind
PlaywrightCloud & Data
AWS
Azure
Redis
MongoDB
Neo4jRecent Blogs
Notes on what I'm building
~/blog
0 posts · retrying with backoff
The queue is empty — for now.
I've been shipping a lot more than I've been writing. There are drafts in flight — they're just parked in the dead-letter queue of my brain, waiting on a retry. Check back shortly.