Gautam R
Principal Software Engineer (Tech Lead, Partner Certification)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolGautam R is a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Red Hat with 11 years of experience building enterprise-grade full‑stack applications and reusable multimedia frameworks. He blends hands‑on development across Angular, React, GraphQL, Flask and Node ecosystems with leadership in partner certification and team delivery. An active open‑source maintainer and GitHub India Opensource Grants winner, he’s a DuckDuckGo maintainer and creator of popular projects like SoCLI (300+ stars in 24 hours) and Nothing Private (600K+ users). His work spans frontend polish and backend integrations—from styling and UX improvements in Algorithm Visualizer to backend RSS automation in a widely used blog-post GitHub Action. Based in Pune, he combines product-minded engineering with a habit of shipping community-focused tools that visibly boost developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher secondary Computer Science, Higher secondary Computer Science at St.Aloysius HSS kollamBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer science and engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer science and engineering at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, KottayamHigh school High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High school High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Holy Family Convent School
Malayalam, English, Hindi, Tamil
Stackoverflow
2,527reputation
390kreached
49answers
2questions
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Github Skills (50)
apim10
git10
github-ci10
javascript10
web-application10
python10
css10
beautifulsoup10
perl10
chrome-extension10
refactor10
google-chrome-extension10
privacy10
api10
webapp10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
gautamkrishnar/socli
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Stack overflow command line client. Search and browse stack overflow without leaving the terminal :computer:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:70 releases, 40 reviews, 374 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gautam's contributions focused on implementing new features and fixing bugs within the SoCLI project. The commit history indicates the user was involved in refactoring code, adding new search functionalities, and enhancing the user experience through interactive elements and options. These changes involved modifications to the core python code and interactions with the Stack Overflow API, including improvements to the handling of search results.
terminal-apppythonpypistackoverflowsearch-client
gautamkrishnar/motrix-webextension
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
A browser extension for the Motrix Download Manager
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 9 reviews, 65 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily contributed to the development of a browser extension for the Motrix Download Manager. Their work involved implementing the initial UI and integrating it with the Motrix API. They added features such as API key storage and disabling the extension. Furthermore, the user refactored the code, fixed path issues, and added notifications.
firefoxbrowserdownload-managermotrixwebextension
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