Nilashish Chakraborty
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNilashish Chakraborty is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with a decade of experience building and hardening cloud and network automation tooling. He joined Red Hat through progressive engineering roles and now drives backend and network-focused contributions to the widely used ansible/ansible project, fixing idempotency issues and expanding support for diverse network equipment. Earlier at Microsoft he specialized in Azure IaaS (VM & High Availability), earning rapid recognition for technical and customer-facing impact while helping customers migrate and stabilize production workloads. Nilashish combines production support instincts with deep engineering skills, which helps him bridge field-facing problems and upstream open-source fixes. Based in Bengaluru, he holds a bachelor's in Computer Engineering and is an IAENG member, reflecting a continual commitment to professional growth.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Techno India UniversityHigh School Science, High School Science at M. P. Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School
English, Bengali, Hindi, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
network-automation10
python10
yaml9
applet9
buffered-writer6
windows6
file-handling6
authentication6
eclipse6
generator6
django6
java6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2018 - Jan 2021
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Network Engineer
Back-end & Network EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 140 commits, 485 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nilashish primarily contributed to the `ansible/ansible` repository by addressing idempotency issues, implementing new features, and fixing bugs within various network modules. Their work focused on the configuration of network devices with focus on the support of a variety of network equipment. This involved making changes to network modules and testing them.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
NilashishC/bgp_demo
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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