Roni Bhakta

Joined as a contract engineer following GSoC (Nov 2025–Jan 2026) and transitioned into Lenny Ecosystem Lead & Open Library Engineer (Feb 2026–present). Own the Lenny ecosystem end-to-end — backend architecture, API design, and production deployment across the Internet Archive and Open Library teams. Spearheaded Open Library's official OPDS feed service, a standalone microservice serving millions of catalog items over the OPDS standard that now powers reader.archive.org, Internet Archive's Book Explorer app. Maintain the Lenny monorepo and pyopds2 library; contributed to the Open Library Batch Import system.

Selected as a GSoC 2025 Fellow at Internet Archive, mentored by Michael E. Karpeles (Mek), Program Lead of Open Library. Co-created Lenny from scratch — designed core lending flows, database schemas, OPDS feeds, OTP auth, and in-browser reading. Shipped a one-step install script that brought sidewalk libraries online with 800+ open-access ebooks. Continuing as lifetime project stakeholder and maintainer.

Selected to participate in Stanford PhD research study on how AI coding tools affect code review and collaboration in open source software development. Contributing to 4 issues in large OSS repositories, submitting PRs, and addressing reviewer feedback.

Consulting for The Brick House Corporation to extend the lennyforlibraries.org ecosystem and support BRIET — a digital-lending marketplace I co-created — in launching its public rollout. Focus areas: digital-lending infrastructure, OPDS integrations, and LLM-optimised systems.

Contributed to open source projects under Internet Archive, including Open Library, with multiple merged pull requests and active participation in the open source community. Contributed to the development of Lenny, an open source lending system for libraries. Responsible for backend architecture, deployment, and API design. Collaborating with ArchiveLabs and Internet Archive community.

Contributed to the development of Open Library, an open source project aimed at creating a web-based library catalog. Worked on improving the user interface and user experience, as well as fixing bugs and implementing new features.

Contributed to the Internet Health Report, an open source project that aims to provide insights into the health of the internet. Worked on project called internet-yellow-pages and fixed deprecated keywords in the neo4j queries. Issue: #159

Founded GDGC AGPIT and led a tech community, organizing 5+ workshops and meetups, impacting 450+ students with hands-on tech exposure to GCP (Google Cloud Platform). Increased student engagement in emerging technologies by 60% through events on API Design, cloud computing, LLMs, FSD, and real-time systems. Collaborated with 3 external institutions to expand networking opportunities for tech enthusiasts.

Founded AGPIT MLSA and led a tech community, organizing 2+ Workshops and In-person meetups, Impacting 260+ Students with hands-on exposure to GIT, GITHUB & AZURE. Increased student engagement in emerging Microsoft technologies by 40% through events on GitOPS, Cloud, LLMs, FSD, Algorithms and Docker. Collaborated with 4 external institutions to expand networking opportunities for tech enthusiasts.

Served as a Campus Ambassador for E-Cell IIT Bombay, in collaboration with Physics Wallah. Gained access to valuable resources like financial literacy and coding courses, along with internship opportunities. Contributed to E-Cell's success and gained valuable experience, ranking 80 out of 2108 students.