Gurudatt Palankar
Senior Engineer at CrowdStrike
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGurudatt Palankar is a Senior Engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening software for security and systems teams, currently at CrowdStrike in Plano, Texas. He has a strong background in enterprise security products from roles at McAfee and Intel, and began his career in device driver and UI work at Hewlett-Packard. Academically rigorous, he holds a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from NC State, pairing deep theoretical grounding with practical delivery. His open-source contributions include back-end and test-quality work on the NSF-supported Expertiza peer-review platform, highlighting a focus on reliable team-management features and test-driven fixes. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances shipping features with improving test coverage and system integrity. He brings consistent cross-domain experience—from low-level drivers to cloud security services—and a knack for turning flaky tests into stable releases.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 80%, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 80% at B. M. S. College of Engineering
English, Kannada, Konkani, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
peer-to-peer9
testing9
peer9
rspec9
st7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 10 days
Contributions summary:Gurudatt primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Expertiza application. Their work focused on modifying the `teams_users_controller_test.rb`, `join_team_requests_controller.rb`, and `team.rb` files, indicating involvement in team management and request handling within the peer review system. Additionally, the user made changes to test files to fix failing test cases, which includes adding and editing tests. This suggests a focus on ensuring the application's integrity through unit testing.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
guru1989/expertiza
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:10 pushes in 10 days
nationalpeer-reviewnational-science-foundationsciencedjango
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