Santosh Wadghule
Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSantosh Wadghule is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience and a 13+ year focus on Ruby on Rails, currently improving developer and admin experiences on Zendesk’s Platform Engineering team. He combines deep backend expertise (Rails, caching, ActiveJob) with hands-on frontend work (React, Vue, Turbo) and cloud infrastructure (Heroku, Docker, AWS). Santosh has a track record of rescuing and optimizing applications, performing architecture reviews, and mentoring teams across fintech, insurtech, and government projects. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable improvements to the core Rails codebase, including caching and memory store tests, and even documented API usage to reduce duplication. Based in Pune, he blends pragmatic engineering with tooling craftsmanship—Vim and performance tuning are among his personal signatures.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
testing10
ruby-rails10
caching10
rails10
ruby10
documentation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 34 commits, 58 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Santosh primarily contributed to the Ruby on Rails framework, making various improvements and fixing inconsistencies. They addressed grammatical errors in documentation and code comments. Key contributions include enhancing caching mechanisms and adding tests, specifically for ActiveJob functionalities and memory store tests. Additionally, the user refactored code and removed duplication, documenting API usage to ensure consistency.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
mechanicles/cityeatouts
Apr 2009 - Jul 2010
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 3 months
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