Sagun Khatri is a Senior Software Engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering high-volume, mission-critical JEE applications on Linux/Oracle stacks. He has led development teams and built financial systems that process payments for multiple U.S. states, handling peaks of thousands of transactions per minute and integrating ACH, credit card, and accounting workflows. Skilled in Hibernate, Spring, JPA and enterprise deployments, he pairs deep backend expertise with practical shell scripting and UNIX operations. His recent roles include engineering positions at Apple and Facebook after leading development at General Motors, reflecting strong experience across large tech and automotive enterprises. An active contributor to open-source tooling—adding and refining package recipes for the widely used emacs el-get project—he brings a pragmatic, developer-friendly approach to automation and integration. Based in Austin, he combines architectural thinking with a track record of shipping auditable, high-throughput systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Texas State University-San Marcos
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Luther College
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sagun contributed to the `el-get` repository by adding and updating recipes. These recipes define how external Emacs Lisp packages are managed and installed. The user added recipes for `ac-cider`, `graphql`, and `treepy`, and updated the recipe for `ghub` to include new dependencies. This work suggests a focus on expanding the capabilities of the package manager and integrating it with new tools.
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