Deven Bansod
Software Engineer at Meta
California, United States
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Top SchoolDeven Bansod is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently at Meta in Menlo Park. He combines strong academic credentials (MS in CS from Georgia Tech, 4.0 GPA) with hands-on product work across PayPal and Meta, where he has shipped high-throughput microservices and developer productivity tooling. A long-time open-source maintainer and former Google Summer of Code contributor to phpMyAdmin, Deven has improved SQL parsing, UI state persistence, and test automation for widely used projects. His background spans backend databases, full-stack web apps, and test infrastructure—evidenced by contributions to Babel’s test modernization and phpMyAdmin’s robustness on every commit. Known for squeezing developer friction out of large mono-repos (delivering a VS Code projects experience at Facebook) and for pragmatic automation, he blends systems thinking with developer ergonomics.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
mysql10
testing10
php10
jestjs10
database-design10
babel-core10
babeljs10
css9
compiler-compiler9
html9
compiler9
sql8
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database6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
A web interface for MySQL and MariaDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:576 commits, 192 PRs, 275 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Deven Deven Bansod primarily contributed to the phpMyAdmin project by implementing features related to user interface improvements, including creating the print view using CSS, enhancing several UI elements and functionalities, and adding the capability of storing the state of the NavigationTree. They also worked on fixing reported bugs and token mismatch errors. Furthermore, the user made contributions to database-related aspects, specifically with code improvements and fixes on handling and displaying character sets and generation of indexes.
mysqlweb-interfaceweb-appphpdatabase
babel/babel
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 48 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Deven's primary contribution involved migrating existing tests within the `babel/babel` repository to use Jest's `expect` assertions. This involved replacing older assertion methods (e.g., `assert.equal`) with their Jest equivalents. The user targeted various packages within the Babel project, including `babel-code-frame`, `babel-core`, and other modules, demonstrating a broad effort to improve the testing infrastructure and modernize the project's testing framework. The commits also touched upon fixture migration, ensuring existing tests function correctly with the new assertion library.
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