Devang Gaur is a product leader with 11 years of experience building data-driven FinTech and eCommerce products, currently optimizing subscription payments at Adobe after shaping payment reliability and smart retry strategies at PayPal/Braintree. He blends hands-on technical chops in AI/ML, Go, Kubernetes, and APIs with product strategy—having improved payment success rates for high-volume merchants and saved millions through inventory and forecasting models at Dell. Devang contributes to notable open-source projects (including frontend improvements to TEAMMATES and backend/DevOps work on Red Hat’s odo and Terrascan), reflecting a practical command of both frontend UX and cloud-native tooling. A sought-after mentor and speaker, he routinely helps aspiring PMs break into the field while driving go-to-market and developer experience improvements. Based in Bengaluru with a CMU master’s in Software Management, he’s equally comfortable translating complex technical trade-offs for executives as he is shipping code and tests.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Management, Master's degree Software Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Shiv Nadar University
Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:208 reviews, 69 commits, 95 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Devang primarily contributed to the addition of Kustomize support for the terrascan project. They added the necessary code to load and process Kustomize directories, integrating them with the existing IaC provider structure. The commits also included modifications to utility functions related to YAML file handling and path manipulation. The overall contribution focused on expanding the project's capabilities to support Kustomize, a tool for customizing Kubernetes configurations.
odo - Developer-focused CLI for fast & iterative container-based application development on Podman and Kubernetes. Implementation of the open Devfile standard.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:12 reviews, 8 commits, 15 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Devang contributed to the `odo` project by addressing various issues related to the application's core functionality. They corrected struct definitions, fixed help text, and validated parameters within the configuration set command. Moreover, they made significant changes to the component creation process, including the addition of an `--s2i` flag and related validation logic. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and streamlining the application's build and deployment workflows.
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