Ridhwana Khan
Software Engineer
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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RockstarRidhwana Khan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in the Western Cape, South Africa, focused on building systems that improve people's lives in small but meaningful ways. She brings practical back-end expertise, demonstrated by contributions to the popular open-source Forem project where she implemented article-level workflow enhancements—adding an 'approved' attribute, updating indexing logic, and migrating existing content. Comfortable working with databases and data-migration scripts, she blends careful schema changes with attention to content-management impacts. Ridhwana pairs a user-centered mindset with reliable engineering execution, favoring changes that improve both developer workflows and end-user experiences. Her steady open-source involvement signals a commitment to community-driven software and continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
rails10
schema-design10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
ruby-on-rails10
database-schema10
indexing9
data-migration9
activerecord9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2049 reviews, 423 commits, 511 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ridhwana's commits primarily focused on adding and modifying attributes within the Article model, and associated index logic, including changes to the database schema. This included adding an 'approved' attribute to articles for filtering and indexing purposes, which directly impacts content management workflows. The user also worked on a data update script to re-index existing articles with the new 'approved' attribute and adjusting the count of published posts.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
Ridhwana/Ridhwana.github.io
Apr 2018 - Oct 2024
My Personal website
Contributions:4 PRs, 65 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 6 months
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