Janmejay Singh
Founding Engineer at Observo.ai
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolJanmejay Singh is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 18 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing tooling from Bengaluru. He progressed from hands-on engineering roles at ThoughtWorks, Flipkart, and Rubrik to co-founding Observo.ai, bringing deep expertise in systems, logging, and language-oriented engineering. An active open-source contributor to the rsyslog project, he has added language features and documentation that improved RainerScript string manipulation and normalization workflows for a widely used logging system. Known for blending pragmatic architecture with low-level code contributions, he favors elegant, test-covered solutions and has a background in both dynamic languages and large-scale backend platforms. His IIT Roorkee engineering roots and longtime interest in programming languages inform a pragmatic curiosity that often surfaces in tool and DSL improvements behind the scenes.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Github Skills (9)
c1710
logging10
c1110
rsyslog10
sphinx10
documentation10
testing9
bash-shell9
sh9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rsyslog/rsyslog
Oct 2014 - Jan 2021
a Rocket-fast SYStem for LOG processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 172 commits, 30 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Janmejay's contributions primarily focused on enhancements and modifications to the `mmnormalize` action within the `rsyslog/rsyslog` repository. They added features like the ability to specify a template for the `mmnormalize` action and later transitioned to accepting a variable instead. Furthermore, the user introduced support for functions like `replace` and `wrap` within the rainerscript language to enable string manipulations. The commits also included tests for these new features, validating their functionality within the rsyslog environment.
syslogloggingrocketelasticsearchkafka
rsyslog/rsyslog-doc
Oct 2014 - Nov 2016
documentation for the rsyslog project
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Janmejay primarily contributed to the documentation of the rsyslog project. Their commits focused on adding, updating, and reformatting documentation for various features, including RainerScript functions, control structures, module parameters (like `omkafka` and `imptcp`), and the `dyn_stats` and `lookup_tables` functionalities. They also corrected typos and improved the overall readability of the documentation.
rsyslogloggingsphinx
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