Nagesh Bansal
Bringing Olly To The Community at SigNoz
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNagesh Bansal is a cloud-native platform and community-focused engineer with about five years of experience building resilient backend and DevOps systems and driving open-source adoption. He has contributed to CNCF projects like LitmusChaos—adding GitOps-enabled experiment workflows and GraphQL/backend fixes—and improved test automation for widely used data tooling such as weecology/retriever. A Google Summer of Code alumnus, he built a production-ready Python pipeline to ingest and prepare NEON geospatial datasets, blending data engineering with geospatial analysis. At IIT Roorkee he combined robotics leadership and competitive drone design (gold medalist at Inter IIT Tech Meet) with hands-on software work, and today champions developer experience and community for SigNoz’s Olly while continuing platform engineering.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
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Github Skills (29)
chaos-engineering10
kubernetes10
pytest10
python10
testing10
object-oriented-programming10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
html10
devops10
data-science9
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
data-retrieval9
gitops9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
litmuschaos/litmus
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hackmd.io/a4Zu_sH4TZGeih-xCimi3Q
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 11 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nagesh primarily contributed to backend functionalities, particularly within the `chaoscenter` directory, modifying Go code related to GraphQL server and chaos experiment handling. They fixed existing issues, added features for unit tests, and integrated GitOps functionality to trigger updates when saving, deleting, and updating experiments. Furthermore, the user made database-related changes, including adding a project ID to the GraphQL response and fixing the server version handling. They also updated dependencies in the `go.mod` file.
chaosnotessite-reliability-engineeringoperatorchaos-experiments
weecology/retriever
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Quickly download, clean up, and install public datasets into a database management system
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nagesh primarily focused on enhancing the testing suite for the retriever project. They added new tests for excel and socrata/r dataset functionalities, expanded the existing test coverage for various file formats (e.g., XML, SQLite), and implemented tests for core functions related to script retrieval and versioning. Their contributions involved modifying existing test files and creating new ones to ensure the robustness and reliability of data retrieval processes.
management-systemdata-retrievalpythondatadata-science
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