Pradyumna Dandwate is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience architecting and shipping web-first solutions across startups and enterprise firms, currently at Broadcom in Pune. He blends deep Ruby/Rails expertise with Java/J2EE and front-end skills (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), and has hands-on cloud experience on Google App Engine, Heroku and Rackspace. A pragmatic technical leader, he has led teams at Appthority/Symantec and co-founded CourseBuffet to simplify discovery of online courses. He also contributes to high-profile open projects—having implemented UI and backend enhancements for DuckDuckGo Instant Answers—demonstrating a knack for full-stack problem solving and clean refactors. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns broad technical curiosity into products that improve people’s lives on the web.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering at COEP Technological University
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Pradyumna primarily worked on developing the front-end components for the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers feature related to CourseBuffet. Their contributions included implementing user interface elements, adjusting styling, and incorporating the necessary data to display course information. They also modified the back-end Perl code, including triggers and query handling. They also refactored the code and added new features and made sure tests work, adjusting various features.
Check departure times for trains/buses in California
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
departure-timestrainstimeszoneszmodem
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Pradyumna Dandwate - Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom Inc.