Gagan Awhad
Senior Software Engineer at Desiring God
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGagan Awhad is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining web publishing platforms, currently shaping DesiringGod.org’s content infrastructure using Ruby on Rails. Based in Minneapolis, he combines a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science, University of Minnesota) with practical craftsmanship honed since early roles at IBM and in web development projects that included Google Maps integrations and WordPress multisite deployments. He focuses on delivering reliable, production-grade systems for content-heavy sites and understands both back-end architecture and the nuances of publishing workflows. Notably, his long tenure at a single organization reflects deep domain expertise and a commitment to iterative improvement in the platforms he owns.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (107)
authentication10
ruby10
slugify10
slug10
analyzer10
rails10
amazon10
permalink10
friendly-url10
plugin10
amazon-redshift10
django9
formatter9
code-analyzer9
ids9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gaganawhad/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Jan 2025
my dotfiles
Contributions:19 PRs, 181 pushes, 18 branches in 9 years 11 months
gaganawhad/scriptura
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 73 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 11 months
apibiblemetarubyintuitive
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