Summary
Rachit Kapadia is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience focused on cloud-native systems, plugin development, 5G integration, and containerized deployments. Currently a Software Engineer 3 at Ciena, he has progressed through multiple engineering tiers there while delivering production features and platform improvements. His earlier work includes direct contributions to OpenStack’s upstream Ironic service, reflecting hands-on open-source collaboration and deep Python/cloud platform experience. Based in Pune, he combines telecom-focused engineering with practical DevOps tooling like Docker, and often bridges vendor-specific product needs with community-driven solutions. Colleagues know him for steadily moving projects from prototypes into reliable, maintainable components.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree computer science and engineering, Bachelor’s Degree computer science and engineering at ITM universe