Amol Gautam
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmol Gautam is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native systems and infrastructure, currently on the Azure Storage team at Microsoft. He has driven reliability and observability improvements at scale—designing DBaaS disaster recovery, Prometheus remote-write microservices in Go, and reducing on-call toil and restore times at VMware/Broadcom. At Red Hat he modernized Ansible Controller backends and implemented offline analytics and performance-focused refactors, and as an OpenShift intern authored an AWS cleanup tool that cut billing dramatically. Comfortable across Go, Python/Django, Kubernetes and CI/CD, he blends SRE mindset with backend and DevOps craftsmanship. An active contributor to projects like AWX and academic web apps, he brings hands-on product impact and a knack for squeezing performance and cost savings from complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (26)
ruby-rails10
python10
ansible-awx10
django10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
postgresql9
javascript9
dockers9
containerization9
docker9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 23 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Amol primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the AWX platform, focusing on enhancing job management and execution. Their work involved adding new features related to job properties, such as `launched_by` and `ancestor_job`, and modifying serializers and models to reflect these changes. Additionally, the user implemented and maintained infrastructure components by creating a new model and command-line tool for collecting host metrics and setting up containerization configurations. They also addressed migration issues and adjusted settings related to receptor and container group environments.
pythondjangored-hathatupstream
expertiza/expertiza
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Amol primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end development of the Expertiza web application. Their work included implementing new features such as a "select all" checkbox for topic selection, modifying UI elements, and adjusting controller logic. They also addressed bug fixes and merged branches to integrate changes, demonstrating a good understanding of the application's codebase and its functionalities. The user also updated mailer configuration for conference-related emails.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
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