Dhruv Baldawa
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolDhruv Baldawa is a versatile software engineer and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable, cost‑effective systems across full-stack, serverless, and infrastructure layers. He specializes in modernizing legacy codebases into microservices and SOA using domain-driven design, while driving CI/CD, DevOps, and TDD to accelerate delivery and efficiency. Comfortable across Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, and TypeScript, he pairs hands‑on coding with product and team leadership and an obsession for productivity. An active open-source contributor, Dhruv has improved reliability and cross-platform testing in notable projects like the Nikola static site generator. Beyond software, he experiments with Kubernetes clusters, Go tooling, and IoT hardware—building Arduino/Raspberry Pi devices and completing MITx IoT coursework. He’s particularly drawn to distributed systems, HPC, and AI/ML, and channels that curiosity into teaching, workshops, and community evangelism.
14 years of coding experience
Udacity
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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28kreached
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Github Skills (14)
plugin-development10
python10
doctest10
static-site-generator10
lxml9
testing8
alpha6
php6
dictionary6
cookie6
sqlalchemy6
django6
oauth6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
getnikola/nikola
Jun 2013 - Apr 2014
A static website and blog generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dhruv primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the sitemap generation plugin within the Nikola static site generator. They addressed issues related to subdirectory support, base URL handling, and directory traversal, ensuring accurate site indexing. Furthermore, the user added doctests to improve testing and cross-platform compatibility, enhancing the reliability of the sitemap feature. Other contributions include fixing an issue with `nikola auto` not watching files properly and fixing extra root tags in post processing.
pythonstatic-siteblog-generatorjavascriptmarkdown
multiformats/py-multihash
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
Multihash implementation in Python
Contributions:26 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
multihashpythonpython3pypi
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