Smitesh Patil - Member Of Technical Staff

Smitesh Patil

Member Of Technical Staff - 2 at Nutanix

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Smitesh Patil is a software engineer with seven years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff - 2 at Nutanix after progressing from intern to mid-level engineering roles. He holds a B.E. (Hons) in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Goa, and has practical internship experience at MathWorks and NESAC working on testing tools for Simulink and land-use classification models. At Nutanix he focuses on building reliable, production-grade systems and has demonstrated steady growth and ownership across product lifecycle stages. An active open-source contributor, he developed core functionality for a Neovim winbar/statusline plugin that integrates with LSP servers, showing attention to developer experience and low-level tooling. Based in Bengaluru, he blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering and a knack for improving developer workflows through focused, well-tested contributions.

7 years of coding experience

2 years of employment as a software developer

B.E. (Hons) Computer Science, Computer Science, B.E. (Hons) Computer Science, Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus

English, Marathi, Hindi

Github Skills (9)

neovim10

lua10

language-server10

language-server-protocol10

neovim-plugin10

data-structure7

data-structures7

algorithm7

algorithms7

Programming languages (7)

RustSchemeJavaScriptLuaJupyter NotebookVim ScriptPython

Github contributions (5)

SmiteshP/nvim-navic

May 2022 - Jan 2023

Simple winbar/statusline plugin that shows your current code context

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:54 reviews, 95 commits, 67 PRs in 8 months

Contributions summary:Smitesh primarily contributed to the core functionality of a Neovim plugin. Their work involved developing the `attach` and `update_context` functions within the Lua codebase, enabling the plugin to interact with Language Server Protocol (LSP) servers. Further commits included fixing an infinite loop and refactoring the code to use Lua tables instead of Vim buffer tables. Additionally, the user implemented a depth limit feature and added the get_data and get_location functionality.

luastatuslinepluginlspneovim

SmiteshP/nvim-gps

Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

Simple statusline component that shows what scope you are working inside

Contributions:37 reviews, 155 commits, 62 PRs in 10 months

luanvim-treesittertreesitterstatuslineneovim

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