Sahil Gadimbayli
Founder & Software Engineer at lightfulweb OÜ
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSahil Gadimbayli is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building and scaling web applications in Fintech and E‑Commerce from Barcelona. He runs boutique consultancy lightfulweb OÜ and prefers long-term engagements, combining hands-on development with product-minded technical strategy informed by an MSc in IT Strategic Management. Sahil has led migrations to cloud-native platforms, raised test coverage of legacy Rails apps above 90%, and automated payment processing workflows to cut manual effort by 80%. He bridges technical and business operations, focusing on code quality, performance optimization and test automation while also coaching junior engineers and aligning cross-functional stakeholders. An active contributor to Ruby ecosystem projects, his work on GoodJob improved multi-schema Postgres support and project organization—an indication of his pragmatic, backend-first approach to hard reliability problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of SouthamptonMaster of Science (MSc), IT Strategic Management, Master of Science (MSc), IT Strategic Management at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
rails10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
database-design9
sql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bensheldon/good_job
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Sahil focused on improving the `good_job` project's internal workings, particularly regarding configuration and database interactions. Their contributions include refactoring code to allow for environment variable configuration for cleanup processes, removing unused code (PgLocks class and method), and implementing a Zeitwerk loader for project organization. Additionally, the user modified the project to use quoted table and primary key names in lockable queries, accommodating multi-schema database setups.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubybackendpostgres
gadimbaylisahil/emerged-api
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 189 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
reactmvpcollaboratenodejstypescript
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