Prasannajit Acharya
Software Engineering Lead at Elsevier
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrasannajit Acharya is a Software Engineering Lead based in Bengaluru with 12 years of experience building and operating web applications across WIMP, LEMP and LAMP stacks. He is a certified Laravel developer and an expert in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Python and PowerShell, with a strong focus on clean, maintainable code and end-to-end ownership from planning through deployment and maintenance. He has led teams and delivery at startups and enterprise environments, streamlining development workflows and driving migrations such as PHP 5.5 to 7.4 while implementing SAML/Okta SSO and automation for sysadmin workflows. At Elsevier he now combines hands-on engineering with leadership, and his open-source work includes maintaining Homebrew casks to support ARM64 macOS builds—evidence of attention to cross-platform compatibility and release engineering. Known for practical problem-solving, he bridges development, DevOps and release automation to deliver reliable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Tele-communications Engineering, 6.82, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Tele-communications Engineering, 6.82 at Ajay Binay Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Odia
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Github Skills (16)
homebrew10
macos10
homebrew-cask10
ruby10
sublime-text9
software-packaging9
android-studio9
git8
ecommerce6
windows6
css6
webserver6
php6
apache6
database-design6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
May 2021 - Dec 2022
💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:46 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Prasannajit's contributions center on maintaining and updating cask definitions within the `homebrew-cask-versions` repository. Their work involves modifying Ruby files to support ARM64 builds and updating versions of various applications like Android Studio, Sublime Text, and Sublime Merge. These updates include changes to download URLs, SHA256 checksums, and version numbers to reflect the latest releases, ensuring compatibility for macOS users.
caskscaskhomebrewalternate
paKanhu/homebrew-cask
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:5 PRs, 3 pushes, 67 branches in 1 year
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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