Sangmesh Ausekar is a Senior Ruby on Rails developer based in Pune with 6+ years of hands-on experience building API-driven, scalable web applications and resilient back-end systems. He has a strong track record of turning complex business requirements into maintainable architecture, having advanced through roles at MSys, Synechron, and now Johnson Controls. An active open-source contributor to the Chef ecosystem, he has improved Chef Vault and Chef Infra by fixing JSON/knife vault issues, hardening input validation, and smoothing bootstrap/Windows packaging edge cases. Comfortable bridging DevOps and back-end engineering, he brings practical experience with systemd, PowerShell, SSH config nuances, and exception-safe refactors. Trained as an electronics/telecom engineer, he combines hardware-aware problem-solving with software craftsmanship to deliver robust production systems.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics and Telecommunication, Electronics and Telecommunication at Walchand Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur
Securely manage passwords, certs, and other secrets in Chef
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 reviews, 22 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sangmesh primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Chef Vault project. They addressed issues related to JSON formatting in several `knife vault` commands, including `list` and `show`. They also refactored code, handled exceptions in the `vault?` method, and implemented input validation, improving the overall robustness and usability of the Chef Vault functionality.
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:5 reviews, 28 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sangmesh primarily focused on updating the Chef Infra codebase. Their contributions included refactoring and updating PowerShell-related code, specifically within the package provider. They addressed issues related to Windows share resources and systemd unit properties, and also updated specs. Furthermore, they resolved problems encountered during bootstrapping, including those involving ssh config files.
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Sangmesh Ausekar - Sr ROR Developer at Johnson Controls