Chakshu Gautam
Founder at Flywheel
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolChakshu Gautam is a founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and governance-focused technology from Delhi. He advanced through engineering roles at Samagra—helping democratize technology for public services—before founding Flywheel and co-founding Mizu Health, blending product leadership with hands-on system design. His open-source contributions include backend integrations for the Sunbird education portal, where he improved UCI authentication and routing to strengthen platform interoperability. Trained as an M.Tech. in Structural Engineering from IIT Delhi, he brings an analytical, systems-first mindset to software problems and a history of moving between academia, startups, and consulting. Notably, he pairs enterprise-grade engineering with founder-level product instincts, making him equally comfortable shipping code and shaping strategy.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Civil Engineering at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology
English, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
user-authentication10
javascript10
nodejs10
proxy10
authentication10
web-proxy10
api10
apidoc10
http-proxy10
proxy-pac10
expressjs9
rest-api9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Sunbird-Ed/SunbirdEd-portal
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Web Portal for sunbird software. Provides the web interfaces for all functionality of Sunbird. Find the installation instructions at: https://ed.sunbird.org/use-1/install-locally/sunbirded-portal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 25 commits, 8 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Chakshu primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `sunbirded-portal` repository, focusing on the UCI (Unified Communication Interface) service integration. Their commits include fixing base URLs, modifying routes, and adding/removing related configurations within `uci.js` and `environmentVariablesHelper.js` files. These changes involved modifying and adding API whitelist and implementing necessary authentication for UCI-related endpoints within the portal. Additionally, the user updated the UCI base URL to use Kong and addressed token verification issues.
web-portalinstructionsinstallationportalinterfaces
ChakshuGautam/cQube-ingestion
Jan 2023 - Nov 2023
cQube Ingestion Blocks
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 27 PRs in 10 months
pocs
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