Jatin Naik
Staff Software Engineer at Snyk
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJatin Naik is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 15 years of experience building reliable, test-driven backend and frontend systems across cloud and developer-tooling companies. He has progressed through leadership roles at Improbable and VMware and now contributes at Snyk, combining hands-on coding with architectural influence. A pragmatic polyglot, Jatin has notable open-source contributions to Go and testing ecosystems—improving Ginkgo/Gomega matchers and enhancing high-performance Go workers—alongside React component work that bolstered UI filtering and customization. He brings a strong testing and automation mindset, a history of refactoring for maintainability, and a knack for turning developer pain points into reusable tooling.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B Sc Computer Science, B Sc Computer Science at Modern College of Arts,Science and CommerceM. Sc. Computer Science, M. Sc. Computer Science at Interdisciplinary School of Scientific ComputingMaharashtra Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (21)
json10
matcher10
javascript10
gomega10
redis10
testing10
go10
customisation10
react10
test-automation10
ginkgo9
jes9
dependency-management9
grids9
datatable9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
onsi/gomega
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 16 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jatin primarily focused on enhancing the `gomega` library, specifically by adding new matchers and improving existing ones. Their contributions include the implementation of a `HaveCap` matcher, a `MatchYAML` matcher, and modifications to the `MatchJSON` matcher for better error messages. They also worked on test improvements and added functionality to track and manage gexec started sessions, including methods to kill, terminate and signal the processes.
matcherginkgo
benmanns/goworker
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
goworker is a Go-based background worker that runs 10 to 100,000* times faster than Ruby-based workers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jatin contributed to the `goworker` project, a Go-based background worker. Their contributions primarily involved fixing dependencies, merging upstream changes, and refactoring code for better usability. The user added the `Enqueue` function and improved code quality by removing unnecessary prints. The commits indicate a focus on enhancing the core functionality and maintainability of the worker system.
golangtimesrubyfasterruns
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