Rohan Deshpande
Senior Principal Engineer at Creativelifeform
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRohan Deshpande is a Senior Principal Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and driving engineering strategy at scale. Currently at Atlassian, he focuses on clarifying complex problem spaces and leading cross-department technical initiatives—recently working on JavaScript monorepo infrastructure. He combines hands-on architecture and implementation skills (React, GraphQL, Node, AWS) with a history of modernising legacy systems, delivering geospatial and CMS products, and driving platform migrations. As director of Creativelifeform and an active contributor to KeystoneJS, he has improved admin GraphQL endpoints and cloud asset handling for a widely used headless CMS. He’s comfortable moving between product-facing UI work and deep infrastructure change, and brings a creative background in media and design to technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Sydney Grammar SchoolUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (29)
cms10
apidoc10
wpgraphql10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
keystonejs10
graphql10
nodejs10
react10
imageio9
image9
javascript9
file-upload9
imagehandler9
image-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
keystonejs/keystone
Mar 2021 - May 2022
The superpowered headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rohan primarily focused on enhancing the KeystoneJS CMS by implementing a GraphQL API endpoint within the Admin UI. Their work involved adding new configuration options, creating API templates, and refactoring code. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to cloud image and file integration, including supporting cloud assets and fixing related issues in the image and file handling system. They also worked on image and file uploads, and resolved redirect issues.
cmscms-frameworkreactnode-jsnodejs
rohan-deshpande/rd-fetch
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
A developer friendly fetch wrapper class
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years
fetchfetch-wrapperjavascriptwrapper-class
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