Keshav Biswa
Senior Software Engineer at Saeloun
Guwahati, Assam, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKeshav Biswa is a Senior Software Engineer based in Guwahati with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading engineering efforts at startups and product teams. At Saeloun he focuses on shipping reliable user-facing features and has previously led development at Avalon Meta, grounding his work in practical product delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved accessibility and UI behavior on the popular Forem platform and stabilized test coverage for the faker-ruby library, showing attention to both front-end polish and QA rigor. Comfortable across the stack, he combines hands-on coding with a knack for fixing tricky bugs—he even jokes that he can reverse a linked list. Outside work he decompresses with chess, anime, and the occasional guilty-pleasure movie, bringing a curious and steady presence to teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering at Assam down town UniversityHigher Secondary, Science, Higher Secondary, Science at St. Edmund's CollegeHigh School, High School at Jail Road Boys' Higher Secondary School Shillong
English, Hindi, Nepali
Stackoverflow
361reputation
19kreached
1answer
9questions
Github Skills (20)
accessibility10
javascript10
testing10
faker10
ruby10
html9
react8
css8
rails7
ruby-on-rails7
data-structures6
factory-bot6
optimization6
itext6
asp-net-mvc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Mar 2019 - Sep 2021
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 12 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Keshav primarily contributed to the front-end of the Forem platform, focusing on improving user interface elements and accessibility. Their work includes fixing bugs related to time display, implementing and refining reaction buttons with aria attributes, and resolving issues with mobile feed filters. They also made changes related to follow buttons, enhancing accessibility with aria labels and pressed states.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
faker-ruby/faker
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 7 PRs, 34 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Keshav primarily focused on improving the testing coverage and reliability of the `faker-ruby/faker` project. They fixed a flaky spec, updated tests to reflect API changes (like renaming `Faker::Australia` to `Faker::Locations::Australia`), and added or modified tests related to newly introduced or renamed features like `Faker::Theater` and `Faker::NationalHealthService`. The user also addressed specific testing issues by adjusting regex matching and ensuring accurate generation of fake data.
phonetestingrubyaddressesphone-numbers
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