Ketan Padegaonkar
Head Of Engineering at Specmatic
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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RockstarKetan Padegaonkar is a seasoned Head of Engineering with 17 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across front-end, back-end, and DevOps domains. Currently leading Specmatic, he focuses on consumer-driven contract testing for microservices and async architectures, helping teams simulate and validate integrations using OpenAPI and AsyncAPI. A long-time open-source contributor and ex-ThoughtWorker, he has made impactful contributions to well-known projects like GoCD and CruiseControl.rb, improving CI/CD robustness and cross-platform builds. He combines hands-on hardware and embedded skills—Arduino, PCB design, and 3D printing—with software craftsmanship, enabling pragmatic end-to-end solutions. Outside of work he applies the same systems-thinking to paragliding: he designed and deployed solar-powered mesh networks for search-and-rescue in Bir/Billing. Known for yak-shaving to unblock teams, he blends deep technical breadth with a practical, product-focused leadership style.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (17)
dependency-management10
back-end-development10
testing10
java10
cicd10
ruby10
javas10
go10
bundler10
build-automation10
api-design9
jruby9
rake9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
gocd/gocd
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 1 review, 2256 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ketan's contributions primarily involve enhancing the codebase for continuous delivery, focusing on tasks such as ensuring session management during tests, and adding feature toggles to control API behavior. They made changes related to artifact handling and test setup, involving modifications to multiple configuration files and test cases. They also contributed by adding and maintaining the core features that power the server-side deployment and release pipelines, as suggested by the commit messages.
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-testinggocddevopscontinuous
thoughtworks/cruisecontrol.rb
May 2011 - Jul 2011
CruiseControl for Ruby. Keep it simple.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:70 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ketan primarily focused on dependency management and build process improvements for the CruiseControl.rb project. Their commits include vendorizing gems to ensure consistent dependencies across environments, updating Ruby gems, and fixing build configurations to support Java and JRuby environments. They also added scripts and configurations related to creating a self-hosting JAR file. Overall, the user contributed to making the build and deployment process more robust and platform-independent.
keeprubycruisecontrolmrubysketchup
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