Faizaan Gagan
Self Employed
Surat, Gujarat, India
Summary
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Top SchoolFaizaan Gagan is a Technical Advocate with a decade of experience building forums, e-learning platforms, and custom websites, combining freelance agility with product-focused work at Discourse. He specializes in Discourse forum development and back-end engineering, contributing improvements to the popular open-source Discourse platform such as plugin API enhancements, draft serialization, and bug fixes. Comfortable with PhalconPHP and WordPress, he has delivered bespoke solutions for clients through his freelance practice and the Pavilion cooperative. Based in Surat, India, he blends hands-on coding with community-facing advocacy, often turning community needs into pragmatic plugin features. An understated strength is his focus on maintainable plugin APIs and code quality, evidenced by linting and API-version updates in upstream Discourse.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Computer Science, B.E., Computer Science at Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trusts, Vishwakarma Institute of Informatics Technology,Pune
Stackoverflow
732reputation
41kreached
6answers
9questions
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
javascript9
emberjs8
postgresql8
java6
android-studio6
machine-learning6
cakephp6
woocommerce-rest-api6
macos-high-sierra6
android6
android-emulator6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Aug 2019 - May 2022
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 19 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Faizaan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Discourse platform. Their work involved enhancing the plugin API by adding features like draft serialization and methods for featured link meta decorators. The user also addressed code quality issues by fixing linting errors and updating the plugin API version. Additionally, they made minor improvements and bug fixes to existing features.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
paviliondev/discourse-category-lockdown
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Set all topics in a category to redirect, unless a member of specified groups
Contributions:21 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 10 months
groupsphpcategorymemberdiscourse
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