Gitanshu Sardana is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend, full-stack, and infrastructure tooling across startups and large firms, including multi-year SDE roles at Amazon. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and has a strong track record in distributed systems, CI/CD, and performance-focused engineering—evidenced by work on the rlworkgroup/garage RL toolkit where he revamped cross-platform build scripts, migrated tests to pytest, and implemented multi-stage Docker builds. Past roles span mobile-to-server integrations at MobiKwik and Snapdeal where he improved app performance and introduced modern Android architecture, showing a pragmatic balance of product impact and engineering hygiene. He’s comfortable shipping production services, mentoring teams on CI migrations (cutting CI time by 50%), and designing parallel experimentation pipelines with Dask and Prefect. Currently based in Toronto and eligible for roles under STEM OPT, he’s seeking backend, SRE/infra, or full-stack positions focused on scalable server-side systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern California
Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing at Coursera
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
A toolkit for reproducible reinforcement learning research.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:22 reviews, 125 commits, 164 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Gitanshu primarily focused on setting up and configuring the development and testing environment of the garage repository. They updated the build scripts for Linux, macOS, and Colab, including installing dependencies like MuJoCo, gym, and dm_control. The user also converted the testing framework from nose2 to pytest and added features like running tests in a multi-stage Docker build and fixing nightly tests, indicating involvement in CI/CD and build automation. These changes include a multi-stage docker build, and changes to the testing suite.
Contributions:44 commits, 4 PRs, 13 comments in 11 months
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