Rajendra Kadam
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRajendra Kadam is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently driving backend development at GitLab after earlier roles at BrowserStack, Hotstar and AWS. He combines strong systems and automation instincts—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Selenium (adding JDBC-backed session management) and GitLab CE (Asciidoctor upgrades and Zoom link extraction)—with hands-on build and test automation expertise using Bazel and Jest. Comfortable across the stack, he has also contributed UI polish to Oppia and cut his teeth in startups as a two-time co‑founder, bringing product sensibility to engineering decisions. Based in Mumbai, he thrives on building reliable, production-grade systems and frequently ships improvements that bridge backend services, developer workflows, and user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Full Stack Web Development. Computer Software Engineering, Certificate in Full Stack Web Development. Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampState Secondary certificate. Normal schooling, State Secondary certificate. Normal schooling at Wees English High SchoolBachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at K J Somaiya College of Engineering Vidyanagar Campus Vidyavihar Mumbai-400 077
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (37)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
selenium10
css10
typescript10
rails10
selenium-ide10
jdbc10
java10
ruby10
javas10
material-design10
eventbus10
gitlab10
jestjs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SeleniumHQ/selenium
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
A browser automation framework and ecosystem.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 42 commits, 34 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rajendra implemented a JDBC-backed session map, enhancing the Selenium Grid's session management capabilities by integrating with JDBC databases. This involved creating a `JdbcBackedSessionMap` class, implementing methods for adding, retrieving, and removing sessions, and integrating it with the existing event bus. The user also added unit tests for this new session map implementation.
dotnetpythonbrowserjavascriptruby
SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Open Source record and playback test automation for the web.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rajendra primarily focused on integrating Bazel build files and test targets into the Selenium IDE project, indicating a focus on build and test automation. They added and modified BUILD.bazel files for several packages (browser-info, webdriver-testkit, get-driver, side-model, side-commons, side-testkit, side-recorder-postprocessor, side-runtime, side-cli, side-migrate, side-recorder), likely integrating the Bazel build system. The user also added and configured test targets using the jest testing framework for several packages.
test-automationelectrontestingjavascriptwebextension
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