Alkesh Ghorpade
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAlkesh Ghorpade is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, specializing in Ruby on Rails consulting while enjoying systems work in Go. He has driven performance and scalability improvements across e-commerce and SaaS products—examples include slashing a cron job from ~150 seconds to milliseconds, unifying Elasticsearch instances to cut costs, and building image vectorization and RemoveBG pipelines. A frequent open-source contributor to the flagship rails/rails repository and an active blogger on data structures, algorithms, and upcoming Rails features, he bridges deep framework knowledge with practical production fixes. His consultancy background includes large Rails upgrades and test-coverage overhauls for clients like Egghead and Brivity, and he’s built automation tooling to publish and syndicate his technical writing. Based in Pune, he combines startup grit with disciplined engineering and a knack for turning manual workflows into reusable automated solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyHigh School 12th, High School 12th at DAV Public School, Airoli
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
application-framework10
ruby-rails10
app-framework10
rails10
ruby10
activerecord10
web-framework10
actioncable9
storage9
actionpack9
activemodel9
jestjs6
mocking6
puppet6
erb6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 30 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alkesh primarily contributed to the codebase by identifying and fixing typos throughout the Rails framework. The commits span multiple components of Rails, including Action Cable, Active Job, Active Model, Active Record, Active Storage, Railties, and Action Pack, indicating a broad understanding of the framework's internals. Additionally, the user made some minor code adjustments such as enclosing a body tag and optimizing a method.
ruby-on-railsrailsmvcactiverecordactivejob
alkesh26/aws-sdk-ruby
May 2015 - Aug 2019
The official AWS SDK for Ruby.
Contributions:4 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 4 months
sdkrubyaws-sdkaws
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