Ritesh Chikatwar
Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolRitesh Chikatwar is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures. He has strong Java back-end expertise honed at IBM and Red Hat, where he contributed to prominent open-source projects such as oVirt, VDSM, Gluster and Cockpit-ovirt—adding storage management features and REST API sync for Gluster volume heals. At Mastercard he now focuses on event-driven systems, drawing on prior experience deploying OpenShift with CephFS and optimizing storage and virtualization stacks. Early roles involved full-stack Java/Spring development and mentoring junior engineers, reflecting a practical mix of hands-on coding, code review, and team enablement. Based in Pune, he combines production-grade engineering with an open-source mindset and a master’s specialization in computer networking. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of fixing both backend logic and UI/UX issues, bridging gaps between infrastructure and user-facing surfaces.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Networking, Master's Degree Computer Networking at Dayananda Sagar Institutions
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (10)
management10
javas10
rest-api10
glusterfs10
backend10
back-end-development10
java10
virtualization10
bugtracking9
postgresql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oVirt/ovirt-engine
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
The oVirt Engine virtualization manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ritesh primarily contributed to the back-end of the oVirt Engine, focusing on enhancements related to Gluster volume management and storage domain configuration. They implemented features to synchronize Gluster volume heal operations through the REST API, along with adding validations for unsupported volume types during storage domain creation and checking disk space. Additionally, the user addressed UI/UX issues and bugs. The user also addressed UI issues related to Gluster cluster snapshots.
defoldlibvirtovirtvirtualizationovirt-engine
rchikatw/ocs-client-operator
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
An operator to define and connect storage consumers to an external OCS storage provider.
Contributions:139 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 4 months
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