Prajakta Purohit
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrajakta Purohit is a Seattle-based software engineering leader with 14 years of experience specializing in backend, DevOps and automation across configuration management and infrastructure projects. She progressed from engineer to engineering manager and software architect at Progress Chef, driving platform reliability, build automation, and cross-team delivery. An active contributor to prominent open-source Chef projects, she has improved installer tooling, added safer “why-run” support to providers, and hardened builds by upgrading runtimes and license automation. Known for blending hands-on engineering with people leadership, she focuses on measurable operational improvements—adding logging/timestamps and health-check timing to aid debugging and observability. Her background in distributed systems research and early sysadmin work gives her a rare combination of provenance-aware design sensibilities and production operations experience.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Indiana UniversityBachelor's of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Mumbai UniversityMaster of Science; 2010, Computer Science; To, Master of Science; 2010, Computer Science; To at Indiana University
Github Skills (26)
dependency-management10
licensing10
erlang10
testing10
key-management10
linux10
build-system10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
build-automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
devops10
rights-management10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chef/omnibus-software
May 2016 - Jan 2022
Open Source Software for use in Omnibus built packages
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 32 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Prajakta primarily focused on maintaining and updating build configurations and dependencies within the `omnibus-software` repository. Their contributions include modifying build scripts, updating versions of third-party libraries, and adjusting file permissions to ensure the smooth operation of the build process. They also addressed security vulnerabilities by upgrading JRE versions and correcting licensing information for dependencies. Furthermore, they implemented modifications to support compatibility across different platforms.
omnibusopen-source-software
chef/chef-server
Nov 2014 - Dec 2022
Chef Infra Server is a hub for configuration data; storing cookbooks, node policies and metadata of managed nodes.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:547 reviews, 671 commits, 542 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Prajakta primarily contributed to the backend of the Chef Infra Server, focusing on the API and related infrastructure. Their work involved implementing tests for the controls API endpoint and modifying the codebase to enable external RabbitMQ for analytics. The user also made changes related to logging, and upgrading the postgresql which suggests involvement in infrastructure management as well. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on core functionality and operational aspects of the Chef Server.
erlangstoringnodesinfrachef-server
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