Himadri Bhattacharjee
Senior Software Engineer at Capital Numbers
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Summary
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RockstarHimadri Bhattacharjee is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kolkata with four years of hands-on experience building and improving backend systems. He has recently progressed through senior backend roles and now works at Capital Numbers, bringing practical expertise from prior positions in startups and product teams. An active open-source contributor, Himadri has made substantive improvements to notable projects like Nushell and Arch Linux installer and added security-focused features to the fast Rust tool feroxbuster. His contributions emphasize robust completion logic, safer command execution, serialization and packaging fixes, and mutual TLS support—demonstrating a focus on reliability and developer ergonomics. Comfortable across languages and environments, he pairs pragmatic refactors with careful handling of edge cases (e.g., quote/backtick path completion and FIDO2 device issues). He describes himself succinctly as “One with the machine,” reflecting a pragmatic, systems-oriented engineering approach.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
git10
python10
paths10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
linux10
installer10
fileio10
archlinux10
command-line10
file-processing10
file-handling10
rust10
shell10
file-access10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nushell/nushell
May 2023 - Aug 2024
A new type of shell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 14 PRs, 50 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Himadri primarily contributed to the completion and improvement of the Nushell command-line shell. Their work focused on file path completion, including handling of quotes, backticks, and relative paths. They also implemented directory name completion, and improved the handling of command execution by preventing recursion. Additionally, the user refactored and optimized some of the completion logic.
rusttype-ofshellbash
archlinux/archinstall
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 16 PRs, 30 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Himadri primarily contributed to the `archinstall` project by addressing bug fixes and code improvements. Their work includes fixing mypy errors, simplifying object serialization, correcting dkms package installations for NVIDIA, and resolving issues related to FIDO2 device retrieval. The user also implemented refactoring and design pattern changes, making the code more efficient and maintainable.
arch-installerarchinstallisomanjaroinstaller
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