Piyush Awasthi
Lead Engineer - R&D at Siemens
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolPiyush Awasthi is a Lead Engineer with over a decade of experience building enterprise-grade software and leading R&D teams at Siemens, combining hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with people leadership. A seasoned Ruby on Rails developer and core contributor in the Chef ecosystem, he has improved automation tooling and documentation across high-profile repos like chef/chef and knife-ec2, including Windows package and PowerShell compatibility fixes. He routinely bridges development and operations—shipping features, adding tests, and tightening infrastructure automation—while also improving developer experience through clear technical docs. Based in Noida, India, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a talent for simplifying complex systems and mentoring teams to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science at North Maharashtra University
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (29)
ec10
markdown10
windows10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
amazon-ec210
markdown-it10
aws10
powershell10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
documentation10
system-configuration9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chef/knife-ec2
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Chef knife plug-in for AWS EC2
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 13 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Piyush primarily focused on enhancing the Chef knife plugin for AWS EC2. Their contributions involved fixing VM changes and specifications, adding features like listing EC2 AMIs, and implementing volume tagging. They also addressed WinRM configurations for HTTPS transport. The user also updated the version and documentation, alongside adding unit tests.
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chef/chef
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 42 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Piyush contributed to the Chef Infra repository by fixing code errors, adding tests, and refactoring existing code. They focused on provider packages, specifically Windows package management, and implemented changes to DSC configurations and LCM parsing. Their work included fixing chomp errors, adding tests, and improving PowerShell version compatibility within the Chef infrastructure automation platform.
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