I build communities where developers get unblocked, become contributors,
and feel like they belong in the room.
- 💬 Now: Community & Support Associate at Zencoder: end-to-end support across Intercom, Discord and email, a custom Discord support bot, and a structured open-source contributor program.
- 🌱 Before: Product Advocate at DevRev, building courses, workshops, hackathons and community programs that turned learners into contributors.
- 💻 Before that: Frontend Engineer at DevRev, shipping React features, Cypress tests and AI-assisted workflows.
- 📝 Open source: Technical Writer for AsyncAPI through Google Season of Docs (accessibility, content discovery and a docs style guide).
- 📍 Bangalore, India · available for good trouble
Try out in your terminal (it won't hack your system, read it first):
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starlightknown/starlightknown/main/karuna.sh)| 🎙️ Community, Code & Conversations That Matter | Zencoder roundtable |
| 🛠️ Building with Appwrite's MCP server and Zenflow | Build session |
| 🚀 Products and Launch Stories | Zencoder community hours |
| 📺 KlassTime with Karuna | Podcast series |
When I'm not in a Discord thread, I'm painting skies, nebulae and small glowing worlds in acrylic and watercolour, or looping little scenes in Blender. See them on my portfolio or Instagram.
Community: Discord · Intercom · Notion · Zendesk · GitHub Discussions · Workshops · Contributor programs
Building:
Operations: GitHub Issues · Git · Slack · WorkOS · Railway · Support triage · SSO troubleshooting
✦ Building for developers, or a community around them? Let's make it. ✦





