Hi Beam Community, My name is Atharva Ralegankar, a Computer Engineering undergraduate from Pune, India.
I am writing to introduce myself as a prospective contributor aiming for GSoC 2026. I have a strong interest in distributed systems and am currently conducting research on low-latency transport protocols (QUIC) and designing security-aware transport mechanisms. My background includes building scalable backend architectures and deploying applications on Google Cloud Platform using Docker and Kubernetes. Recently, I built a workflow control plane implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for deterministic task execution, which sparked my interest in how Beam handles DAGs and pipeline execution. I am excited to start contributing to the project. Could someone please share an invitation link to the ASF Slack workspace (specifically the #beam channel) so I can join the real-time discussions? Best regards, Atharva Ralegankar https://www.linkedin.com/in/atharvaralegankar/ https://github.com/atharva262005
