Akshay Chhajed
Principal Consultant at Qubit Infotech
Harrison, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Chhajed is a Principal Consultant with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, automation, and full-stack solutions from New Jersey. He currently architects and implements cloud-native workflows using Docker and Kubernetes, and has a track record of contributing to Go-based open source projects such as gh-ost and doctl. Beyond core systems work, he has improved developer UX in tooling—adding keyboard navigation and UI refactors to the popular dive image-inspection tool—demonstrating attention to both low-level system behavior and user-facing polish. His background spans VoIP and messaging stacks, Debian packaging, and rapid MVC development, reflecting comfort across networking, operations, and application layers. Holding a Master’s in Computer Science from NJIT and a bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, he blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering for pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (11)
tui10
docker10
go10
dockers10
cli9
keybindings9
docker-image8
explore7
inspector7
internet-explorer7
file-explorer7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wagoodman/dive
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily contributed to the UI and overall functionality of the `dive` tool, focusing on improving the user experience through keyboard navigation. They added features like left and right arrow key navigation within the file tree, page up/down functionality, and fixed a bug related to left arrow navigation. Additionally, they refactored the UI, which demonstrates their understanding of the project's front-end and overall system design.
docker-imagedockerinspectortuiexplorer
akshaychhajed/mattermost-server
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Open source Slack-alternative in Golang and React - Mattermost
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
golangreactslackmattermostslack-alternative
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