Rishi Chawda
Principal Software Engineer at Progress
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRishi Chawda is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 9 years of experience building DevSecOps and infrastructure automation solutions, currently driving engineering at Progress after a long tenure with Chef. He blends backend expertise in Ruby/Rails and cloud services (AWS S3, CloudFront, IAM) with frontend work in React, demonstrating full‑stack fluency from secure content distribution to responsive UI tweaks. An active open‑source contributor to the flagship Chef Infra project, he has improved cross‑platform resources (notably macOS CoreFoundation rewrites) and fixed critical fleet‑management edge cases that benefit enterprise customers at scale. He has led teams and projects at Codebrahma building PWAs, React Native apps, and IoT integrations, and mentors engineers while shipping CI/CD, testing, and automation improvements. Colleagues know him for turning complex infrastructure requirements into pragmatic, well‑tested solutions and for communicating technical ideas clearly through webinars and documentation.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at St. Paul's School, Rourkela
Hindi, English, Gujarati, Odia
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
electron10
ruby10
automation10
chef-infra10
automations10
react10
css9
responsive-design9
macos8
redux8
desktop-application8
devops7
deploying7
developer-tools7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 61 commits, 30 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rishi contributed to the Chef Infra project by fixing bugs and implementing new features. Their work focused on improving the functionality of existing resources, specifically the `group` and `registry_key` resources. They also refactored and improved the `macos_userdefaults` resource by rewriting it using the CoreFoundation gem and making the set calls uniform. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the Chef Infra framework and its resource model.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
responsively-org/responsively-app
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
A modified web browser that helps in responsive web development. A web developer's must have dev-tool.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Responsively App, a web browser for responsive web development. Their contributions included implementing a link hover display, ensuring the URL of a hovered link is shown in the bottom left of the screen and improving its animation and appearance. They also made fixes for color theming. The changes involved modifying React components, and styling with CSS.
dev-toolresponsive-web-developmentdeveloper-toolsweb-browserbrowser
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