Danesh Dadachanji
CTO & Founder at DivNotes
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDanesh Dadachanji is a CTO and founder with 14 years of experience building bespoke mobile and cloud software from Toronto. He leads DivNotes, a boutique development shop where he combines hands‑on back-end engineering, system architecture and server administration with product strategy and team coaching. Technically fluent in Ruby on Rails, React, Java, Docker and AWS, he focuses on reliable, scalable systems and R&D-driven product innovation. Early open-source work includes improving security and JNLP handling at Red Hat and targeted backend fixes and API tests for the MarkUs grading platform. Known for translating complex requirements into practical deployments, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with deep implementation experience. He holds an honours BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours) Computer Science, BSc (Honours) Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (8)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
html9
api-testing8
i18n-node7
i18n-js7
rspec7
i18next7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MarkUsProject/Markus
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Danesh primarily focused on fixing HTML escaping issues within the application, ensuring that the `raw` function was correctly implemented to prevent unwanted escaping. They also addressed the functionality related to collecting and grading submissions, improving the user experience. Additionally, the user contributed to the API tests, specifically focusing on response types and handling different scenarios.
git-repositorymarkdownmarkus
daneshd/libreconv
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Ruby gem that converts office documents to PDF using LibreOffice / OpenOffice.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
ruby-gempdflibreofficedocxruby
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