Hi, I currently work as a Principal Software Engineer at Arbisoft and also as Open edX Core Contributor with over 7 years of experience in building and scaling modern web infrastructure.

I bring a unique combination of backend engineering expertise, cloud-native DevOps practices (AWS), and open-source leadership to every initiative I work on.

  • 📄 View My Resume - Get a comprehensive overview of my experience and skills.

🚀 What I Do

⚙️ Backend Engineering

  • Design scalable APIs using Python and Django
  • Build robust REST APIs with Django REST Framework
  • Implement data processing with Pandas and NumPy
  • Optimize database performance and queries

☁️ Cloud and DevOps

  • Deploy and manage AWS services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, S3)
  • Build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins
  • Containerize applications with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Monitor systems with Datadog, Splunk, and NewRelic

🎓 Open edX Leadership

  • Lead strategic platform upgrades and migrations
  • Mentor new contributors and community members
  • Standardize processes across 150+ repositories
  • Present technical talks at Open edX conferences

🛠️ Technical & Soft Skills

💻 Languages & Frameworks

  • Python
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • React.js

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager)
  • ArgoCD
  • Jenkins
  • GoCD
  • Ansible
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • NewRelic

🤝 Soft Skills

  • Technical documentation
  • Mentorship
  • Cross-team collaboration
  • Public speaking
  • Project leadership
  • Community engagement

👥 Leadership in Open edX

Over the years, I've played an active role in improving the developer experience and ecosystem stability for Open edX:

  • Community Leadership: Championed platform-wide upgrades and modernization projects. Led by example and supported contributors across time zones.
  • Speaker & Advocate: Delivered technical talks at Open edX conferences, presenting tools, best practices, and sharing behind-the-scenes of high-impact efforts.
  • Mentorship & Onboarding: Helped onboard new contributors by documenting workflows, simplifying tooling, and guiding them through their first PRs.
  • Standardization & Automation: Built codemods, scripts, and bots to automate repetitive tasks like PR creation, version bumps, and repository tracking.

🔧 Highlight Projects

🐍 Python 3.12 Platform Upgrade

Led the Python 3.12 migration across 10+ critical Open edX services and internal tools.

  • Audited dependencies, submitted patches to incompatible upstream packages, and tested under new runtimes.
  • Rebuilt Docker images to support Python 3.12, ensured backward compatibility, and upgraded CI workflows accordingly.
  • Managed risk across distributed teams by coordinating test freezes, staggered rollouts, and fallback strategies.
  • Used CI runners and codemods introduced in earlier projects to accelerate the migration effort.

📊 Real-Time Analytics Dashboard

Architected a real-time analytics system by integrating RESTful APIs, leveraging Pandas for transformation and computation, and deploying compute logic using AWS Lambda.

  • Configured AWS CloudWatch to monitor application metrics and set up alerts for anomalies.
  • Designed data flows that minimized latency and supported on-demand insights for stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with frontend developers to expose meaningful data visualizations for operational decision-making.
  • Acted as a performance lead to trace bottlenecks and optimize Lambda cold start impact.

☁️ Serverless Data Pipeline

Led the design and deployment of a fully serverless, event-driven data pipeline using AWS Lambda, S3, and Secrets Manager.

  • Embedded robust error handling and monitoring with CloudWatch logs and custom metrics.
  • Integrated API responses with data transformation logic using Pandas, achieving scalability under fluctuating workloads.
  • Authored modular Lambda functions reusable across Open edX monitoring tools and data ingestion components.
  • Shared this design pattern with the team to inform best practices for other AWS-native projects, including the CI autoscaler and health dashboards.

🐳 Containerization and Environment Unification

Migrated over 8 monolithic or script-based services into standardized Docker containers.

  • Unified development, staging, and production environments to eliminate "works on my machine" issues.
  • Refactored legacy Ansible scripts into clean Dockerfiles and docker-compose configurations.
  • Reduced onboarding time for new developers by introducing a self-contained dev environment.
  • Coordinated with QA and DevOps to build GitHub Actions-based integration pipelines.

📈 Open edX Repo Health Dashboard

Created the Repo Health Dashboard, a pivotal internal tool to surface real-time insights across 150+ Open edX repositories.

  • Visualized repository health, Django upgrade status, stale PRs, CI failures, and contribution trends.
  • Integrated data scraping, transformation, and S3-hosted frontend as part of a scalable pipeline.
  • Presented this tool at the Open edX Conference 2024, promoting it as a community alignment enabler and modernization compass.
  • Extended the dashboard to auto-fetch GitHub data using scheduled workflows on GitHub Actions.

🧩 Coordinated Django Upgrade Across Open edX

Spearheaded the ecosystem-wide transition to modern Django versions.

  • Established a baseline version matrix for 150+ repos and created automation to track upgrade status.
  • Reviewed, refactored, and merged dozens of PRs from community contributors, ensuring consistency.
  • Developed codemods and reusable upgrade scripts used by multiple teams.
  • Triaged CI failures with custom test matrices and Docker runtime adjustments, working closely with CI and infrastructure teams.

🔄 CI/CD Revamp and GitHub Actions Migration

Transformed the CI/CD architecture by replacing legacy Jenkins, CircleCI, and Travis CI pipelines with GitHub Actions.

  • Set up autoscaling GitHub runners on AWS EKS using Kubernetes, HPA, and cluster-autoscaler integrations.
  • Authored shared GitHub Actions consumed across internal and community repositories to ensure consistency.
  • Documented the full CI stack migration to help onboard Open edX community members.
  • Reduced CI cost and improved reliability, unlocking faster feedback cycles for developers.

Thanks for reading. I'm always open to connect, collaborate, or share ideas.