Chaitanya Yadav
Staff Software Engineer at ThredUp
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolChaitanya Yadav is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack, data-driven systems and shipping production-quality features at scale. He blends Ruby on Rails and Python expertise with cloud and streaming technologies—having converted batch pipelines to real-time at thredUP and helped migrate large Kafka deployments at Tesco without downtime. As a founder of BitNotes he built a campus-used platform that served ~10,000 students and uploaded ~20,000 notes, demonstrating product instincts and user-focused UX design. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UI/UX and internationalization in GitHub Classroom and strengthened back-end testability and style quality in openSUSE/osem. Based in Mumbai, he pairs hands-on engineering with leadership across teams and events, and brings an unusual mix of tinkering curiosity and production-grade reliability to solve real-life problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (34)
ruby-rails10
rubocop10
css10
rails10
githubclassroom10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
i18n-node9
testing9
authentication9
user-interface9
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-authentication9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/osem
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 26 PRs, 153 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chaitanya primarily focused on enhancing the application's functionality and code quality. They implemented mock authentication for GitHub, enabling testing capabilities. The user also addressed code quality issues by enabling and resolving offenses related to RuboCop style rules like `Style/DoubleNegation` and `Style/RedundantSelf`, and `Style/ZeroLengthPredicate`. Moreover, the user allowed view schedule without login.
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github-education-resources/classroom
May 2017 - Jan 2018
GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 30 PRs, 57 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chaitanya primarily focused on front-end development within the GitHub Classroom project. They implemented and modified error pages for various exceptions, including routing and invalid link errors. The user also updated the design of existing error pages and added I18n support to several staff tools views, as well as made adjustments to existing UI elements, such as the grouping link and link colors, indicating a focus on the user interface and overall user experience.
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