Pratik Gaikwad
Software Engineer III at F5
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolPratik Gaikwad is a Software Engineer III with nine years of experience building secure, high-performance full-stack and distributed systems for finance and cloud platforms. With a Master's in Cybersecurity from Stevens Institute of Technology, he blends secure software development, blockchain-enabled IoT research, and practical Dev/ops skills—having implemented multi-threaded, parallelized services at Bank of America and hardened microservices and VM communication at HiveIO. He is proficient across C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go and Solidity, and has contributed backend improvements to the widely used go-gitlab SDK, adding merge-request features and CI controls. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a rare mix of hands-on security testing (Burp, nmap, Metasploit), cloud experience (AWS/Azure) and production-grade engineering that reduces resource consumption while improving reliability. Actively seeking full-time roles in full-stack, secure software development and blockchain-enabled security, he pairs pragmatic product delivery with academic rigor in cryptography and secure architectures.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of MumbaiMaster’s Degree Cybersecurity Computer Science, Master’s Degree Cybersecurity Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (12)
develop10
go10
api10
gitlab-api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing9
iis6
sql-server6
nodejs6
sql6
tedious6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xanzy/go-gitlab
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
GitLab Go SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Pratik primarily focused on improving the GitLab Go SDK by addressing bug fixes and refactoring code. Their contributions include correcting data structures for test reports, adding descriptions for structs, and creating new structs for better handling of pipeline schedules. Furthermore, they implemented features for merge requests, showcasing their involvement in expanding the SDK's capabilities. They also added API calls for merge request diffs and a "skip_ci" option during merge request rebasing.
golanggitlab-cigitlab-apigitlabsdk
GaikwadPratik/CS570AlgoDS
Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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