Jay Mundrawala
Software Engineer at Mondoo
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Jay Mundrawala is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in DevOps, build systems, and cross-platform compatibility, currently based in Seattle and working at Mondoo. He has deep expertise in automating packaging and CI/CD for complex projects—demonstrated by significant contributions to widely used open-source tooling like Chef's omnibus, Chef Infra, and RubyGems/Bundler. Jay routinely tackles Windows-specific build and runtime challenges, from PowerShell integrations to msys/mingw toolchains and MSI signing, and has driven FIPS compliance and security-oriented OpenSSL updates. Comfortable both in backend development and infrastructure automation, he pairs rigorous testing and QA practices with practical fixes that improve reliability across platforms. Notably, his work often lives at the intersection of build engineering and platform compatibility, fixing subtle platform-matching and packaging regressions that many projects overlook. He holds a Computer Engineering background from Illinois Institute of Technology and brings a quietly persistent focus on making build pipelines and releases safer and more reproducible.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (52)
dependency-management10
test-kitchen10
multiplatform10
package-management10
scripting10
wp-api10
oai10
rubygems10
testing10
windows10
packaging10
rspec10
msix10
cross-platform10
msp10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
chef-boneyard/chef-dk
Nov 2014 - Apr 2018
DEPRECATED: A streamlined development and deployment workflow for Chef Infra platform.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:139 commits, 36 PRs, 95 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jay focused on ensuring the ChefDK project's compatibility and functionality across different operating systems. Their contributions primarily involved modifying and adding tests related to Windows environments. This included adapting existing tests and implementing new tests to specifically address Windows-related issues, demonstrating a strong understanding of cross-platform development and build processes. The changes reveal efforts to resolve build and testing failures, emphasizing the maintenance of a reliable build pipeline.
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chef/chef
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:874 commits, 315 PRs, 453 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily focused on back-end development and DevOps tasks related to the Chef Infra automation platform. Their contributions involved enhancing Windows environment variable handling through API usage, migrating helper functions, and modifying tests. Additionally, the user worked on updating PowerShell functional tests and integrating with the Local Configuration Manager to parse and process output, indicating a strong focus on system automation and infrastructure management within the project.
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