Aman Pandey
SDE - 2 at Django Software Foundation
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAman Pandey is a backend-focused SDE-2 based in Mumbai with 5 years of experience building scalable infrastructure for early-stage startups and contributing to major Python web frameworks. He is an active open-source maintainer and GSoC alumnus (Wagtail 2023, Django involvement 2024), notable for making the Django Debug Toolbar and Wagtail more async-friendly and robust. Aman blends practical production engineering with framework-level contributions—refactoring middleware, adding async support, and improving testing and docs—to bridge developer ergonomics and runtime performance. Comfortable in Python and Go, he gravitates toward async systems and has a track record of shipping reliable backend features that improve developer experience as well as user-facing behavior.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at ABES Engineering College
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Github Skills (21)
asynchronous10
cms10
middleware10
back-end-development10
python10
async10
django10
testing10
wagtail10
asgi10
javascript7
html7
ruby-on-rails6
django-models6
neo4j6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
django-commons/django-debug-toolbar
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
A configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 10 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Aman primarily focused on enhancing the Django Debug Toolbar's compatibility with asynchronous views and ASGI. They added support for an async middleware, refactored code, and implemented tests to ensure functionality across synchronous and asynchronous environments. The contributions also included making several panels async-compatible by refactoring existing code and modifying panel instrumentation. The user also updated documentation and improved the overall integration of the debug toolbar with Django's async features.
configurabledebugpanelsrequestrequest-response
wagtail/wagtail
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 9 commits, 26 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aman contributed to the Wagtail CMS project by implementing new features and fixing existing issues. Their work included adding a management command for clearing OEmbed markup, as well as adding tests to verify the correct operation of the rebuild_references_index command. They also addressed a pluralization issue in the page editor interface. Furthermore, they contributed to image and document upload functionality, refining the user experience and ensuring correct file handling.
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