Rucha Mahabal
Engineering Lead at Frappe
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRucha Mahabal is an Engineering Lead with 9 years of full-stack experience, currently driving product and engineering for Frappe’s flagship open-source HR & Payroll offering used by 1.5k+ active cloud users and multiple enterprise self-hosted customers. She combines hands-on Python, JavaScript and Vue.js development with product planning, testing, documentation and content creation, shepherding features from design through release. Her contributions span core Frappe framework work—like refactoring scheduling logic and improving form behavior—to ERP modules (accounts, education, helpdesk) and India-specific compliance features, showing fluency across backend logic, front-end UI and accounting domains. Based in Mumbai, she pairs strong academic credentials (MSc and BSc in Computer Science with top grades) with practical open-source leadership, often resolving complex merge conflicts and improving test coverage. Colleagues rely on her to balance shipping pragmatic fixes with architectural improvements, and she frequently turns nuanced domain requirements (tax, donations, SLAs) into robust, testable implementations.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Education, Computer Science, 89.85%, Higher Secondary Education, Computer Science, 89.85% at Ramnivas Ruia Junior College of Arts and ScienceBachelor of Science, Computer Science, 9.8 CGPA, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 9.8 CGPA at Somaiya VidyaviharHigh School, 95%, High School, 95% at Udayachal SchoolsMaster of Science, Computer Science, 9.25 CGPA, Master of Science, Computer Science, 9.25 CGPA at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
erpnext10
python10
gstreamer10
testing10
accounting10
frappe10
sql10
ed2551910
compliance10
web-framework10
ticket-system10
issue-tracking10
sup9
su9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frappe/education
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Open source education / school management system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 57 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rucha primarily addressed conflicts, indicating code merging and integration efforts. They modified Python files within the `erpnext/education` directory, suggesting backend logic adjustments. Furthermore, the user updated JavaScript files and HTML templates, revealing a focus on front-end components and user interface enhancements, which strongly suggests full-stack work. The commits also show work on student applications and attendance.
erperpnextfrappeschool-erp
frappe/erpnext
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:373 reviews, 1295 commits, 1109 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rucha primarily contributed to the `erpnext/erpnext` repository with a focus on the accounts module and test cases. Contributions include fixing tests related to accounting, payment days, and currency related issues. The user also worked on updating the code for generating new 80G certificate and handling donation-related activities. They demonstrated skills in Python development, accounting principles and testing.
procurementpythonhrmsfrappeprofit
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.