Sayan Das
Principal Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSayan Das is a Principal Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat with eight years of experience bridging Linux systems administration and backend engineering. Based in India, he progressed through multiple tiers of Red Hat support since 2018 after earlier work as a Linux System Administrator at Tech Mahindra, gaining deep operational expertise across enterprise Linux and server lifecycle automation. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Foreman, where his backend fixes and template-rendering improvements reflect hands-on work in server provisioning tooling. Known for pairing troubleshooting acumen with code-level fixes, he brings a pragmatic blend of customer-facing support and developer-minded problem solving. His technical foundation stems from a diploma in Electronics & Instrumentation and a consistent track record of moving from systems operations into product-impacting engineering within open-source ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation Technology/Technician, 87.7%, Diploma in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation Technology/Technician, 87.7% at Birla Institute of Technology,Kolkata
Github Skills (10)
ruby-rails10
rails10
foreman10
ruby10
rendering9
render9
templating9
configuration-management9
provisioning8
infrastructure-management7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
theforeman/foreman
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
an application that automates the lifecycle of servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sayan contributed to the Foreman project by implementing new features and fixing bugs. They added a `current_time` macro and made changes to the insights registration process. Furthermore, the user addressed a typo in a default template and made improvements to how filenames are handled in a save-to-file macro. These changes reflect work on core backend functionality and template rendering within the Foreman ecosystem.
automatesmaasinfrastructure-managementvirtualizationhybrid-cloud
sayan3296/forklift
Apr 2021 - Nov 2024
Helpful deployment scripts for Foreman and Katello
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
devopsdeploymentansiblekatellohelpful
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