Dinesh Chidipothu
Software Engineer at Topaz Labs
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDinesh Chidipothu is a pragmatic software engineer with 7 years of experience building scalable backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and live video platforms using Python/Django, Go, Kubernetes, and Terraform. He has delivered low-latency, cost-optimized HLS streaming and recording systems at 100ms—cutting HLS costs by 50% and reducing startup latency from 12s to 4s—while maintaining near-zero downtime across microservices. Comfortable across full-stack and infra roles, he designs robust auth flows (OAuth/OIDC/SSO with AzureAD/Okta/Keycloak), gRPC and REST APIs, and automated observability with Prometheus/Grafana. An active open-source contributor and former GSoC participant for Zulip, he’s improved authentication, testing, and large-scale typing/read-receipt features for thousands of users. Now at Topaz Labs, he continues to blend rapid shipping with strong emphasis on testing, documentation, and mentorship.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Western Illinois UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh
Github Skills (9)
user-authentication10
authentication10
python10
django10
testing10
puppeteer9
chat9
collaboration7
javascript7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:164 reviews, 153 commits, 74 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dinesh made contributions related to both back-end and front-end aspects of the Zulip project. They added support for Puppeteer and its dependencies, modifying provisioning scripts. Additionally, the user revamped configuration error URLs, fixed tests, and made other view modifications in the authentication module. Further commits included setting a GitLab key as development-only, refactoring social auth tests, and adding a test for creating a realm using Puppeteer.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
chdinesh1089/zulip
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
Zulip server - powerful open source team chat
Contributions:859 pushes, 141 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 10 months
team-chatchatzulip
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