Arnav Choudhury
Founder at Falistro
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolArnav Choudhury is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 9 years of experience building and stabilizing production systems across Python/Django, Kubernetes, and AWS. He has led cloud security and API platform projects—most recently owning the Cloud Security Posture module at AccuKnox—and shipped backend systems at Chainstack and Okta. As long-term maintainer of dj-stripe (1M+ downloads) he’s proven expertise integrating complex payment flows and keeping high-impact open source reliable. At Falistro he combines product strategy, cloud architecture, and post-launch support to help startups and enterprises ship MVPs and scale. Known for pragmatic, reliability-first engineering, he pairs hands-on coding with an ability to own architecture and operations end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
English, Hindi
Github Skills (19)
apim10
github-ci10
pytest10
python10
back-end-development10
api-design10
django10
integrations10
cicd10
api10
payment10
githubaction-workflow10
stripe-api10
testing9
cookiecutter9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dj-stripe/dj-stripe
May 2021 - Jan 2023
dj-stripe automatically syncs your Stripe Data to your local database as pre-implemented Django Models allowing you to use the Django ORM, in your code, to work with the data making it easier and faster.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 509 commits, 330 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Arnav primarily focused on enhancing the dj-stripe library to improve its integration with Stripe Connect. They implemented fixes for webhook events related to connected accounts, handling the creation, deletion, and updates of external accounts (bank accounts and cards) for both Custom and Express accounts. They also improved the sync mechanism for payment methods, and implemented the API calls related to subscription schedule by adding the update method to SubscriptionSchedule model, which enabled the user to update several payment related objects.
stripepythondjangolocal-databaseorm
cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 37 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Arnav primarily contributed to enhancing the project's CI/CD capabilities by integrating GitHub Actions. They added support for GitHub Actions, modified existing tests, and updated documentation. Additionally, the user refactored and fixed formatting issues in user-related forms and views. The user also streamlined the codebase, resolving deprecation warnings and removing unnecessary dependencies.
herokupythonboilerplatedjangoproduction-ready
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