Nevil Macwan
Software Engineer at LocalStack
Anand, Gujarat, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNevil Macwan is a software engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently contributing to LocalStack and helping developers test serverless apps offline. He blends DevOps rigor with backend engineering—fixing AWS emulation bugs, improving SQS/SNS behaviours, and adding Lambda credential and feature support in high-profile open-source projects like LocalStack and moto. At companies from startups to CMMI-rated firms he has designed CI/CD pipelines, migrated workloads to Kubernetes, and engineered self-hosted build runners and deployment standards that reduced friction for teams. Known for pragmatic automation, he pairs strong communication and collaboration skills with a focus on secure, production-ready solutions and lifelong learning. Unusually for an infrastructure engineer, he also invests in developer experience improvements (local dev scripts, badge services) that accelerate everyday productivity.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology at SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECH.,VASAD 041HSC, HSC at DZ PatelSSC, SSC at St Xavier's School
Gujarati, Hindi, English
Github Skills (26)
boto10
python10
back-end-development10
amazon-sqs10
aws-sqs-fifo10
lambdas10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
lambda10
ias10
s3-bucket10
testing9
amazon-sns9
cloud-computing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 37 commits, 47 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nevil primarily contributed to the `moto` project, which focuses on mocking AWS infrastructure. They were involved in fixing bugs related to S3 time precision and SNS RedrivePolicy issues. Additionally, the user added support for IAM role permissions boundaries and S3 SSE features. The user's work demonstrates a focus on backend logic, API interactions, and AWS services.
awsbotoec2s3
localstack/localstack
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:155 reviews, 79 commits, 177 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nevil contributed to the LocalStack project by fixing bugs and improving the SQS backend. They addressed issues related to RedrivePolicy and patching SQS URLs for dead-letter queues, and also fixed JSON serialization for eventBridge put_events. Additionally, the user added AWS credential injection into Lambda Docker containers and added several retries to integration tests to improve resilience. The user also added support for new Lambda features and corrected gzip encoding for empty responses.
aws-cloudserverlessawslocalstacktesting
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