Tanay Pant
| Tanay Pant | |
|---|---|
 Tanay Pant in 2016 | |
| Born |
28 September 1995 Lucknow, India |
| Residence | New Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education |
College of Technology, Pantnagar Bal Bhawan Public School, New Delhi |
| Occupation | Author & Innovator |
| Notable work |
Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi Learning Firefox OS Application Development |
Tanay Pant (born 28 September 1995) is an Indian author,[1] speaker, innovator,[2] hacker, and tech enthusiast. He is best known for his work on various books on computer science, open source contributions and his talks at technology conferences.
He writes articles on political issues at Voices of Youth.[3] He also writes for a number of websites like SitePoint[4] and Tuts+[5] where he shares tips and tricks about web development as well his opinions on different products. He has been listed in the about:credits of the Firefox web browser for his contributions to the different open source projects of the Mozilla Foundation.
Early life
Tanay Pant was born in Lucknow and grew up in New Delhi, India. He completed his schooling from Bal Bhawan Public School, New Delhi. He received his undergraduate degree in IT engineering from College of Technology, Pantnagar in 2017. In the second year of his college, he digitally published Code Zer0 to spread awareness about cyber security and hacker culture. He published his first book at the age of 20 with Packt.
Career
Tanay started volunteering for the open source community of Mozilla in 2013.[6] He was also an official representative[7] of Mozilla. The inspirational story of his success and journey in the open source community was published by Opensource.com.[8] He also founded Stock Wolf, a global virtual stock trading platform that aimed to impart practical education about stocks and markets. This platform acquired more than 100 colleges[9] and players from about 15 countries.[10]
His work on Melissa, a voice controlled virtual assistant was widely appreciated by the tech community. He open sourced Melissa and its various components on GitHub[11] and wrote a book on how to develop such intelligent systems.[12] He was interviewed by FossBytes[13] and Dev Diner[14] where he answered questions about his experience with developing Melissa as well as some industry concerns. His software was also named as one of the top open source alternatives to Amazon Echo by FossBytes.[13]
Bibliography
- Learning Firefox OS Application Development (2015)
- Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi (2016)
- Learning Web-based Virtual Reality (2017)
Awards and recognition
- Emerging Tech Inspiration in 2016 [15]
References
- ↑ "Amazon.com: Tanay Pant: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ↑ "Intel® Software Innovator Program - Current Innovators | Intel® Software". software.intel.com. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
- ↑ Youth, Voices of. "Tanay Pant — India — Voices of Youth". www.voicesofyouth.org. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
- ↑ "Tanay Pant, Author at SitePoint". SitePoint. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ↑ "Tanay Pant - Tuts+ Profile". Tuts+. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ↑ "Mozillians: Tanay Pant". mozillians.org. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ↑ "Mozilla Reps - Profile of tanay1337". reps.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ↑ "A Mozilla journey: Contributor to Firefox Student Ambassadors executive board". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
- ↑ "Stock Wolf | Colleges". stockwolf.net. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ↑ "Stock Wolf | Countries". stockwolf.net. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ↑ "Melissa". GitHub. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ↑ Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi - The practical guide | Tanay Pant | Apress.
- 1 2 McElheran, Devin (2016-12-15). "Open Source Alternatives To Amazon Echo". Fossbytes. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ↑ "This guy made his own open-source Jarvis-like virtual assistant". Dev Diner. 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
- ↑ "Thank you to our IoT and AI inspirations of 2016". Dev Diner. 2017-01-04. Retrieved 2017-01-03.