Arpit Nandwani is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems across Amazon, Walmart Global Tech, and now Salesforce, with deep expertise in Java, AWS services, and distributed architectures. He has led cross-team projects that re-architected offer distribution and pricing pipelines for Prime Video, owned 100+ TPS operational systems, and delivered automated email and logistics services that produced measurable cost savings and operational improvements. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and a team lead, he frequently guides junior engineers, coordinates complex multi-team launches, and designs solutions that reduce developer effort and cloud costs. An active open-source contributor and 2017 Google Summer of Code scholar, he modernized Kodi’s Python stack to add Python 3 compatibility and improve cross-platform stability—showing a long-standing interest in interoperable, production-grade software. Based in Bengaluru, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation, often surfacing non-obvious automation and lifecycle guardrails that improve delivery and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Arpit primarily focused on updating and modernizing the Python codebase within the Kodi project. They implemented Python3 compatibility, including updating function names, data types, and module initializations. The user also modified build scripts and dependencies, addressing issues on platforms such as Android, iOS, and macOS. These changes suggest an effort to improve the stability and cross-platform support for Kodi's Python-based components.
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
pythonboringshortautomationpython3
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