Hi I'm Karan Thakkar.
I am a Senior Software Engineer at
Reddit.
I code (most of the time), write (sometimes) and contribute to open source (whenever I can). Lately, I have also been speaking at conferences around the world.
An Illustrated Guide for Setting Up Your Website Using Github & Cloudflare
Going HTTPS on Amazon EC2 (Ubuntu 14.04) with Lets Encrypt (Certbot) on Nginx
How I Grew From 300 to 5k Followers In Just 3 Weeks
This was also featured in Huffington Post and led to me being interviewed on Growthhackers.ninja and Marketing Experiments blog.
headless-chrome-node-docker: Docker image bundled with Google Chrome and Node
Provides a Docker image with out of the box support for the recent release of cross-platform Headless Chrome(60.0.3100.0 dev) and Node(7.10.0). You can find it on Docker Hub [here]
showmyprs.com: See all your Open Source contributions in one place
This is an open source web app built with Golang. It uses the Github API to find all your pull requests and groups them by repository. It was also covered on Product Hunt 🎉 [Code]
npm-telegram-bot: 🕵️ Telegram bot to search for an npm package 🔍 🙌 [Demo]
Tweetify: Twitter lists made fun
This is an iOS App built using React Native. The server code involves Twitter OAuth using PassportJS, MongoDB for session and user data storage, Express for client API's. It is deployed on an Amazon EC2 instance. The code is open source.
[Server] / [iOS App] / [Landing Page]
simple-release: An npm module for managing release of nested projects
twitter-growthhack-toolkit: A set of scripts to help you grow on Twitter