Deepu Puthrote
Senior Software Engineer VP at CAIS
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDeepu Puthrote is a seasoned full-stack polyglot engineer and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building data platforms, event-driven systems, and scalable RESTful services across cloud-native environments. Currently Senior Software Engineer VP at CAIS after senior and principal engineering roles at Funding Circle, he combines hands-on development with system design, DevSecOps, and “you build it, you run it” operational ownership. He has a proven track record of leading teams to solve high-scale, complex problems while favoring robust design and fast iteration over technical debt. Deepu is comfortable across languages and stacks—from Scala and Java to Node.js and Python—and has optimised big data pipelines and deployments in AWS and Spark. An active open-source contributor, he improved Spacemacs’ music and tab layers, showing a pragmatic attention to user experience even in niche developer tooling. He is a research-oriented continuous learner who mentors teams, drives CI/CD best practices, and turns architectural ideas into validated, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B-Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B-Tech Computer Science and Engineering at AWH Engineering College, Kuttikkattoor, KozhikodeSSLC, SSLC at Chinmaya Vidhyalaya, KozhikodeMaster of Science (M.Sc.) EBusiness Information Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) EBusiness Information Systems at Newcastle UniversityHSC Computer Science, HSC Computer Science at Rahmania Higher Secondary School, KozhikodeBachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calicut
English, Hindi, Malayalam
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Github Skills (21)
configuration-management10
char10
emacs10
configuration-file10
spacemacs10
type-conversion10
configurations10
java9
xsd9
jaxb9
xml9
vim8
dropwizard6
css6
spring-mvc6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 43 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Deepu contributed to the Spacemacs configuration, specifically focusing on the `+music` and `+emacs/tabs` layers. Their commits involved refactoring code, optimizing package loading, and introducing new features such as the Centaur tabs backend for the tabs layer and adding org-brain support. These contributions improved the user experience by enhancing music-related functionalities and improving tab management in the Emacs editor.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
WarFox/deepumohan.com
Jun 2017 - Nov 2021
Source repository for my home page
Contributions:30 commits, 21 PRs, 178 pushes in 4 years 6 months
tailwindcssmy-home-pagejekylltypescripthome-page
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