Ammar Bandukwala
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAmmar Bandukwala is a seasoned engineer and co-founder with a decade of experience building developer tools and cloud-native workflows from New York. As a founder at Coder since 2017, he blends hands-on back-end development and DevOps expertise to provision remote development environments and run VS Code over SSH at scale. His open-source contributions show pragmatic attention to reliability—making commands idempotent, fixing client-side edge cases, and improving build/release pipelines and install docs. He routinely bridges product and infrastructure, shipping release scripts, tar-based builds, and robust deployment tooling that simplify real-world developer workflows. Known for a curious, systems-first mindset (“trying to figure out how computers work”), he pairs entrepreneurial grit with meticulous version-control and operational hygiene.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
bash10
build-system10
terraform10
cicd10
release-management10
rsync10
automation10
terraformer10
go10
version-control10
build-tools10
automations10
versioning10
github-ci9
idempotent9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
coder/sshcode
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Run VS Code on any server over SSH.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 35 commits, 27 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Ammar primarily focused on improving the build and deployment process for the project. They added a release build script, built tar releases instead of binaries, and ensured the creation of a bin directory. They also integrated SSH flags into rsync commands and the download script, and updated the help information. Furthermore, they enhanced the functionality by enabling the deletion of extensions and settings, simulating a two-way mount and added a version flag.
sshvscode
coder/coder
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Secure environments for developers and their agents
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:506 reviews, 147 commits, 571 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ammar's commits primarily focus on enhancing the functionality of the `coder bump` command, ensuring its idempotency, and correcting client-side minute checks. They also addressed a code merge accident by reverting a previous commit, signifying a detail-oriented approach to version control. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the installation documentation and addressed an issue with the Go agent, demonstrating a breadth of knowledge across both front and back-end processes.
devcontainersremote-developmentdevopsvscodeide
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