Aahel Guha
Senior Software Engineer 2 at dbt Labs
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAahel Guha is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and cloud-native services, currently at dbt Labs after contributing to HashiCorp’s Consul, Terraform Cloud, and Vault Cloud. He is fluent in Go, Node.js, React, C++, and Java, and has a track record of improving distributed systems—most notably adding tenancy-aware handling and scoped node partitions to Consul’s enterprise features. Based in Bengaluru, he combines an IIIT Bhubaneswar computer science background with hands-on engineering across startups and product teams, from Squadcast to LEAD School. Aahel’s work shows a focus on operational correctness and architectural clarity, often optimizing request decoding and service fetching in high-availability contexts. Colleagues recognize him for shipping pragmatic, low-friction changes that make complex distributed behavior more maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar
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Github Skills (15)
service-mesh10
consul10
go10
back-end-development10
api-design9
api-gateway9
distributed-systems9
api9
apim9
architecture8
architectures8
nodejs6
jira6
jira-rest-api6
oauth6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 26 PRs, 57 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aahel contributed to the Consul project by modifying code related to enterprise features, specifically focusing on the handling of tenanted data and the downgrade process. They added changes to the decode functions for request handling and optimized fetching services within the exported service controller. The user also worked on making node partitions scoped, demonstrating a focus on improving the system's architecture and functionality.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
aahel/git_repo
Aug 2016 - May 2020
my first github repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
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