Gaurav Chande
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGaurav Chande is a product engineer based in Toronto with 14 years of hands-on software development experience, known for building pragmatic solutions and writing about his work. He contributes to core open-source projects such as Shopify's Liquid, where he improved tokenization, filter behavior, and template internals—demonstrating attention to maintainability and language-level correctness. Comfortable across back-end systems and product-facing code, he focuses on shipping durable features that keep developer and customer experience in mind. A BE graduate from Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, he pairs solid engineering fundamentals with a playful, curious approach to solving problems.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
filter9
testing9
template-engine9
software-design9
web-application9
tokenizer9
filtering9
templater9
rack6
http6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/liquid
Dec 2013 - Jun 2016
Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav contributed to the core functionality of the Liquid markup language. They addressed bugs related to the `escape_once` filter and extracted the tokenization logic from the Template class into a RubyTokenizer, improving code organization and maintainability. Further, they modified the Template class to handle default options and made the tag registry enumerable, and corrected range handling. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core language and its internal workings.
hamltemplatemarkup-languageliquidweb-apps
gauravmc/kindle_highlights_api
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
apiacts-askindle-highlightsapi-wrapperkindle
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