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title: "Sreehari R - Contributor in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Sreehari R, Systems | UG @ IIITDMJ | GSoC’26 Metabrainz | SuperteamIN Member based in India. AI stack includes codex and opencode. Explore public work links including github."
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# Sreehari R on Tal

## Headline

Systems \| UG @ IIITDMJ \| GSoC’26 Metabrainz \| SuperteamIN Member

## About

Hi everyone\. Im Sreehari, an undergrad at IIIT Jabalpur\. Mostly work with Rust and systems code at this point\. For the summer I'm at MetaBrainz Foundation, building their GraphQL server with async\-graphql, sqlx, axum and profiling with k6 grafana\. Also built b0nker, a minimal container runtime that talks directly to Linux syscalls, clone, pivot\_root, cgroups v2, overlayfs\. Part of my university's programming club, mostly helping freshmen get comfortable with Rust and contributing to open source\. Before this I co\-founded ZingPay, a phone number native payment protocol on Solana with PDA registries and trustless escrow\. Won the Solana track at HackByte 4\.0 against 120\+ teams and picked up a Superteam India grant\. Looking to work on systems and infra\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

codex

opencode

## Work experience

Contributor at Google Summer of Code, May 2026 \- Present · 4 mos, Building a GraphQL Server as an alternative to the current Musicbrainz API

Member at Superteam India, May 2026 \- Present · 4 mos

Dev Wing Core Member at BitByte TPC, Aug 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur

Mathematics and Computer Science, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans Vidya Mandir

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/owlpharoah

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