Rohit Dandamudi
Entrepreneur In Residence at The University of British Columbia
Canada
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Top SchoolRohit Dandamudi is a research engineer and open-source advocate with seven years of experience building robust backend systems, test automation, and community initiatives in Rust and cloud-native ecosystems. Based in Canada and currently affiliated with UBC, he blends academic research with hands-on engineering, having strengthened Tremor’s testing framework via property-based tests and Erlang QuickCheck integration to improve language reliability. A Rust Foundation fellow and core organizer for Rust India, he connects global communities while contributing low-level improvements and automation across projects. Rohit has startup and leadership experience as a CTO/co-founder and brief product-focused stints (e.g., Fermyon’s Spin WASM work), showing he moves between research, product, and shipping production services comfortably. He also brings prior experience building ML-serving APIs (GSoC work on LodBrok/SpamBrainz) and enterprise tooling at JPMorgan, giving him a rare mix of testing, distributed systems, and applied ML know-how. Outside work he’s a Rust enthusiast with a fondness for anime, signaling a pragmatic engineer who still values playful curiosity.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
AI summer startup school, AI summer startup school at Y CombinatorMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBE - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute Of Technology
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Github Skills (11)
test-framework10
rust10
erlang10
test-automation10
testing10
string-interpolation9
cicd7
algorithms6
algorithm6
data-structures6
data-structure6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tremor-rs/tremor-runtime
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Main Tremor Project Rust Codebase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rohit primarily contributed to enhancing the testing framework of the Tremor project, specifically focusing on property-based testing (Erlang QuickCheck integration). They added comprehensive tests for array, record, and merge operations, increasing code coverage and robustness. Furthermore, the user implemented new features and improved existing ones, such as adding shrinking features for error reduction and including string interpolation tests. The contributions involve modifying Erlang code, demonstrating an understanding of the project's testing infrastructure and core functionalities.
tremor-queryrusttremor-languagescodebasetremor
me-diru/SB_API
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
SpamBrainz API using LodBrok model.
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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