Introducing our 2026 Google Summer of Code Contributors

Accord Project is thrilled to welcome 5 new contributors selected for the 2026 Google Summer of Code! This cohort represents our continued commitment to expanding the Accord Project ecosystem through diverse and impactful technical initiatives.

Harshit Kumar will be spearheading Template Logic Support for Playground
Apoorv Gadiya will be driving Automated Compilation Verification Across All Concerto Code Generation Languages
Devanshi Chhatbar will be pioneering the LLM Based Template Logic Executor
Jay Guwalani will be leading the development of the APAP and MCP Server
Yash Kumar will be focused on Creating a new Concerto runtime for multi-platform deployment

Read more about each project on Google Summer of Code’s Accord Project organization page.

The community bonding period is underway and coding will begin soon!

Learn more about our new contributors and what motivates them!

Devanshi is a final-year Computer Science undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Driven by a deep curiosity for tech, her experience spans AI research in VLM fairness and digital healthcare, alongside industry exposure as a Software Engineering Intern at Microsoft. Outside of coding and working with large language models, she is a trained classical dancer.

I’ve been long aspired to contribute to open source for a long time—the idea of choosing a problem that genuinely interests me, taking full ownership of it, and building something meaningful has always appealed to me. GSoC provides exactly that kind of opportunity, and I’m grateful to the Accord Project for giving me the chance to be a part of it. This summer, I’ll be working on a niche and challenging problem; exploring whether LLMs can act as reliable reasoners for legal contracts, and critically examining how well they handle such tasks without hallucinations. Looking forward to pushing boundaries and learning along the way.

Yash is a second-year B.Tech Computer Science Engineering student at IIIT Sonepat — a systems programmer working primarily in Rust. His focus is compiler infrastructure, static analysis, and open-source tooling. Yash uses Java, C, C++, JavaScript, and Python — and Rust, for its memory safety and high performance.

I discovered the Accord Project when researching open-source systems-wide work that sits at the outer edge of systems programming — not only creating features on top of existing infrastructure but also looking at what should be built. The simple-sounding but highly important question that originally brought me to this project was: Why does the validation of a Concerto model need to occur only in JavaScript? The model was specified to be agnostic to programming languages — there is a formal specification that defines the grammar for creating namespaces, types, inheritance rules and constraints — therefore, the runtime should also be agnostic to programming languages. Therefore, I will be building a multi-platform Rust runtime. I believe that GSoC is the perfect stage for this type of development, and I look forward to working with Ertugrul, Jamie and the Accord Project to get this done.

Apoorv is pursuing a B.Tech degree in Computer Science at RV University, with majors in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and minors in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Product Design (expected 2027). He is passionate about solving problems of various kinds and is driven mainly by curiosity. He is an entrepreneur and is interested in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Jain philosophy.

GSoC is a dream for many and has become a reality for me. I am very grateful for the opportunity provided by Google and appreciate the Accord Project for believing in me. I shall try my best this summer. My primary goals are to make meaningful contributions and give back to the open-source community. I am curious to see how things unfold and wish the best for what lies ahead.

Jay is a graduate student in Data Science and a Researcher at the University of Maryland, with 5+ years of experience building production AI systems at companies like Bridgestone and Aya Healthcare. His current research focuses on scaling laws for LLMs and alignment.

While exploring the APAP reference implementation, I found an architectural issue where every MCP tool call was looping back through HTTP to its own server. That curiosity turned into filing issues, submitting bug fixes, and eventually building a proof-of-concept for the refactor before I even applied. This summer, I’ll be working on hardening the APAP/MCP server with a shared service layer, comprehensive testing, and multi-client documentation so developers can integrate with Claude, ChatGPT, or MCP Inspector easily. What excites me most is that this project connects directly to my research on LLM-service interfaces, and I get to contribute to something that’s shaping how AI interacts with real-world legal agreements. I’m looking forward to collaborating with Niall, Dan, and the Accord Project community to make it happen.

Harshit is a third-year Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate with a deep interest in software development and algorithms. He has recently been contributing to the Accord Project, building full-stack improvements across multiple core repositories including Template Playground and Concerto. Outside of software engineering and algorithmic problem-solving, he loves playing sports, watching movies, and traveling.

I have always been curious about open-source development. Contributing to the Accord Project for months and now getting selected as a GSoC contributor is a dream come true for me. Since my first year of college, I knew I wanted to give GSoC a try and make the absolute best out of the opportunities it provides. Joining the Accord Project was my very first attempt at open source, and the community has been incredibly welcoming from day one. The maintainers are so helpful and chill at the same time. I just know I’m going to have a great time this summer! My main goal is to come out of this program as a much better version of myself, both in terms of my technical knowledge and as a developer, while ofc making a real impact on the community with my project.

This year’s projects will be mentored by active Accord Project maintainers and contributors.

Matt Roberts and Priyanshu Singh will be guiding the Template Logic Support for Playground project.

Diana Lease and Ertugrul Karademir will be leading the mentoring effort for Automated Compilation Verification Across All Concerto Code Generation Languages.

Diana Lease and Daniel Selman will be mentoring the project for the LLM Based Template Logic Executor.

Daniel Selman, Niall Roche, and Steven Obiajulu will be guiding the development of the APAP and MCP Server.

Jamie Shorten and Ertugrul Karademir will be leading the mentoring effort to Create a new Concerto runtime for multi platform deployment.

Diana Lease, Matt Roberts, and Sanket Shevkar are this year’s organization administrators, making sure things run smoothly and that mentors and contributors have the support they need to have a successful summer of coding!

We are all very excited to welcome the new contributors to the Accord Project community and can’t wait to see the outcomes of these five great projects!