Chaitali Gondhalekar
Senior SDE at CrowdStrike
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChaitali Gondhalekar is a Senior SDE based in Seattle with 8+ years building and testing data management and code generation systems, currently focused on security-grade engineering at CrowdStrike. She holds an MSE in Embedded Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and brings deep experience designing scalable test infrastructures and automated suites from her years at MathWorks and Veeam Kasten. Her work blends low-level C/C++ analysis, randomized stress testing, and cloud-native data protection for Kubernetes, evidencing both systems and QA craftsmanship. An open-source contributor to kopia’s robustness tests, she has improved backup integrity scenarios and test tooling that anticipate real-world upgrade and delete operations. Colleagues rely on her for testability insights, cross-team coordination, and reducing defect rates through targeted coverage improvements.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of MumbaiMaster of Science in Engineering Embedded Systems, Master of Science in Engineering Embedded Systems at University of Pennsylvania
English, Marathi, Sanskrit, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
backup10
go10
test-automation10
testing10
encryption9
deduplication9
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
kopia/kopia
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:101 reviews, 11 commits, 29 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chaitali's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the robustness tests within the kopia repository. They introduced new test cases for snapshot fix commands, addressing issues related to data integrity. The user made changes to the test infrastructure, including modifications to the file walker and the handling of potential errors. They updated the test environment to accommodate changes in the kopia upgrade process and added delete actions to the robustness suite.
google-cloud-storagebackupclidata-deduplicationend-to-end
kastenhq/kopia
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Fast and secure open-source backup
Contributions:31 commits, 228 pushes, 30 branches in 6 months
securesensitive-datadeduplicationxorencrypt
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