Chaitanya Bankanhal is a Lead Software Engineer based in Pune with nine years of experience building backend systems, DevOps pipelines, and cloud integrations. As a team lead at Indexnine Tech and former SDE at Cakesoft, he combines hands-on implementation with leadership to deliver production-grade features and guide engineering teams. He is an active open-source contributor—most notably enhancing rclone’s Remote Control (RC) functionality to enable web GUI, plugin support, and secure daemon control—which reflects strong expertise in storage tooling and server-side architecture. A two-time Google Summer of Code contributor and NPCI Hackathon 2019 winner, he brings both competitive problem-solving and community-driven development to his work. Beyond code, he hosts the PCWN podcast, signaling a commitment to knowledge sharing and technical outreach. Practical, curious, and delivery-focused, he excels at turning complex backend requirements into maintainable, secure solutions.
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:6 reviews, 44 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chaitanya primarily focused on enhancing the Remote Control (RC) functionality within the rclone project, implementing features such as web GUI integration and plugins support. They added new commands, parameters, and configuration options related to mounting and controlling the rclone daemon through the RC interface. Furthermore, the user contributed to the server-side aspects, including setting up authentication and defining request/response handling, demonstrating a good understanding of backend development within the project.
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
Contributions:32 commits, 126 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 5 months
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