Pragat Pandya is an SDE-1 with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and spatial-data solutions, currently engineering at Zetwerk after recent roles at GeoIQ and a stint co-founding Caffae.in. He blends strong systems programming in Python and C++ with cloud-native deployment on AWS/GCP and Kubernetes, backed by an M.E. in Software Systems from BITS Pilani. Pragat contributes to notable open-source projects such as LibreOffice core, where he improved geometry and logging code, reflecting a focus on maintainability and computational correctness. Comfortable leading small teams and shipping product features end-to-end, he also brings research experience in expression detection and a history of bridging student communities during his time at BITS.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at SHANTILAL SHAH GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE ,BHAVNAGAR 043
Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pragat contributed to the LibreOffice core repository, primarily focusing on optimizing and refactoring existing code. Their work involved replacing magic constants with mathematical constants from the cmath library, improving code readability and maintainability. The user also addressed code related to angle conversions and replaced debugging print statements with logging calls. They further refined code related to the calculation of geometric shapes.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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