Mayank Chhabra is a CEO and co-founder based in New York with 10 years of engineering experience who leads GetUmbrel’s push into self-hosted, privacy-first consumer infrastructure. He blends product-minded front-end craftsmanship—evident in UI and image optimizations for privacy projects like WalletWasabi—with back-end and DevOps experience, shipping OTA updates and Docker-driven platform improvements for Umbrel. On the AI side he expanded getumbrel/llama-gpt to support 13B and 70B models and added CUDA and Metal GPU acceleration while building React/TypeScript UI components for plugins and chat workflows. Living at the intersection of art and technology, he brings an aesthetic eye to usability that keeps privacy and performance practical for mainstream users.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, IT, B.Tech, IT at Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology
A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:17 PRs, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mayank primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and backend infrastructure of the self-hosted chatbot project. They implemented UI components, including chat input and plugin selection features, using React and TypeScript. Furthermore, the user added support for larger language models, including the 13B and 70B parameter models, and integrated CUDA and Metal (GPU) support. This involved modifying Dockerfiles and shell scripts to optimize performance and streamline the deployment process.
A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Back-end Engineer
Contributions:19 releases, 145 reviews, 235 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mayank focused on improving the operational aspects and back-end configuration of the Umbrel home server OS. They made several changes to the configuration scripts, including adding and removing passwords and handling the usage of Docker images. Significant contributions included the implementation of OTA (Over-the-Air) updates, enhancing the server's update mechanism. The user also refactored configuration logic and removed installation scripts.
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