Parag Bhingre is a Principal Cloud Engineer based in Durham, NC with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently leading cloud initiatives at Fidelity after three years as an SDE at AWS. He brings deep AWS and container expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Spinnaker clouddriver and the AWS Copilot CLI—where he focused on ECS workflows, integration testing, secret management, and deployment UX. Equally comfortable in backend, DevOps, and full-stack roles, he codes in Java (Spring), Salesforce (Apex, LWC), Angular and React, and has driven UI and infrastructure improvements that bridge developer and operator needs. His background in CRM and marketing automation at enterprise firms gives him a unique perspective on customer journeys and data integration across systems. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often surfaces subtle reliability issues through thorough integration testing and thoughtful tooling changes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Sinhgad College of Engineering
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
Registers an Amazon ECS task definition and deploys it to an ECS service.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:15 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Parag primarily focused on correcting and improving the existing codebase within the context of Amazon ECS task definitions. They addressed issues related to environment variables, ensuring proper handling and preventing data loss. Their work included debugging and fixing errors, specifically around boolean inputs and AppMesh proxy configurations. Furthermore, the user contributed to code updates, likely to adjust to changes in the codebase.
The AWS Copilot CLI is a tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications on AWS App Runner or Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:559 reviews, 45 commits, 74 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Parag primarily contributed to the backend logic of the AWS Copilot CLI, implementing features related to task execution and secret management. Their work involved modifying code to grant access to secrets based on tags and to improve error messaging for access issues. The user also updated the CLI to display deployed jobs and services, enhancing the functionality of the environment and app show commands. Furthermore, the user added support for features like ELB access logs, additional security group rules, and configuring environment settings, indicating a strong understanding of deployment and infrastructure aspects of the CLI.
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Parag Bhingre - Principal Cloud Engineer at Fidelity Investments