Rajan Agaskar is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and resilient backend systems across Pivotal, VMware, and Broadcom. He blends hands-on engineering in Ruby, Go, and DevOps with leadership coaching and product security work—most recently contributing to Tanzu Application Service and Kubernetes distribution security posture. An active open-source contributor, Rajan helped shape the popular Jasmine JavaScript testing framework and has applied QA and DevOps rigor to projects like BOSH, improving test reliability and security dependencies. He values software as a craft, emphasizes empathetic communication, and champions tight feedback loops to keep teams and systems healthy. Based in Mill Valley, he still enjoys digging into code and tests despite senior roles, often resurfacing technical fixes that prevent subtle production issues.
Contributions summary:Rajan primarily contributed to the Jasmine Ruby gem, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes for its core functionalities. Their work involved modifying server-side logic, configuration, and test files, specifically addressing issues with focused suites, path handling, and asset loading. The user also introduced features like ERB parsing in the YAML config and incorporated the use of jasmine-core, enhancing the gem's overall functionality and maintainability.
Simple JavaScript testing framework for browsers and node.js
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:173 commits, 4 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rajan primarily contributed to the testing framework, focusing on ensuring correct behavior and adding features to the testing suite. They refactored code into class files, implemented various tests for spec execution, including asynchronous tests, and added support for "waits" and "waitsFor" blocks. Additionally, the user made modifications to the HTML runner, incorporated a TrivialReporter, and addressed various bug fixes within the testing framework.
testing-frameworkbrowserstestingjavascriptnode-js
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Rajan Agaskar - ICB 5 - Principal Engineer at VMware