Roni Bhakta
Google Summer of Code ’25 @InternetArchive | Lenny Co-creator & Maintainer @InternetArchive | Full-Stack Developer
- Role
- Lenny Eco-system Lead & Open Library Engineer at Internet Archive
- Location
- Solapur, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Roni Bhakta
I build scalable, open-source systems empowering communities and solving real-world problems, impact-first.2025 GSoC Fellow turned contract dev at Internet Archive (Nov \'25 to Jan \'26): Own backend and APIs for Lenny, open-source lending for Library\'s. Enables affordable e-books, per Aaron Swartz\'s vision. Rolled OPDS feeds to over 100 beta libraries, CI/CD, observability. Co-created with Internet Archive\'s Open Library team; maintain pyopds2 library and Lenny monorepo (TurboRepo, TypeScript, React). Advancing secure, decentralized lending.Founder of Zonformat: Zero-overhead notation format cutting LLM token usage by approximately 50 percent versus JSON. Human-readable, lossless. Python and TypeScript libraries with schemas, streaming, validation. Over 99% retrieval accuracy; powers cost-effective GenAI. Repos gaining stars and downloads.Stack: Python and FastAPI, MERN and Next.js, Docker and Kubernetes and AWS and Cloudflare, GenAI (LLMs, LangChain, embeddings, RAG) for end-to-end build, ship, ops.
Experience
Lenny Eco-system Lead & Open Library Engineer
Feb 2026 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Lead Lenny Eco-System, Provide support to Internet Archive’s Book Explorer app & handle Open Library OPDS services
Education
A. G. Patil institute of technology
BTECH Degree, Computer Engineering
A. G. Patil Polytechnic Institute
Diploma, Computer Engineering
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