Kashish Mittal
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKashish Mittal is a software engineer based in Old Toronto with three years of experience building secure, production-ready services and developer tooling. Currently at Red Hat, Kashish has focused on backend work—contributing to the popular open-source Backstage project by hardening catalog endpoints with permission checks, credential handling, and validation tests. A University of Toronto CS graduate with a 4.0 GPA, they pair rigorous academic training with hands-on leadership experience, having led an eight-person team to deliver a community job board. Kashish also co-authored CHI '24 research on human-AI co-writing, reflecting a strong interest in applied ML and HCI. Pragmatic and security-conscious, they excel at turning research insights and open-source contributions into robust, auditable systems.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA: 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, GPA: 4.0/4.0 at University of TorontoAISSCE High School Diploma, Science Stream (with Mathematics and Computer Science), 97%, AISSCE High School Diploma, Science Stream (with Mathematics and Computer Science), 97% at Indian School Muscat
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (14)
permission10
portal10
typescript10
authorizations10
backstage10
typescripts10
backend10
catalog10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
authorization10
apidoc9
api9
nodejs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kashish primarily contributed to the Backstage project by implementing features related to the catalog backend. Their work involved adding permissions checks to existing endpoints, such as the `validate-entity` and `analyze-location` endpoints. They also modified the codebase to include a credentials field in several components and added tests for the validation process. The changes show a focus on access control and enhancing the security of the catalog backend.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
04kash/backstage
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Contributions:75 pushes, 10 branches in 10 months
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