Smriti Garg
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSmriti Garg is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of software development experience and five years in senior engineering roles. She specializes in Ruby on Rails and Java EE, and has built production-ready applications from scratch while grooming small teams and managing multiple stakeholders. Comfortable across the DevOps lifecycle, she applies Docker, Kubernetes, Bitbucket Pipelines and AWS to enable continuous delivery and high-velocity releases. At GitLab she focuses on backend systems, and her open-source contributions to the widely used Chef Infra project improved CLI user management and hardened mount/resource behavior—showing attention to both developer ergonomics and low-level operational edge cases. Her background spans consulting, enterprise SAP/Webdynpro work and technical leadership, giving her a practical blend of product-facing and infrastructure expertise. Known for turning complex requirements into reliable, test-covered solutions, she brings steady delivery and pragmatic engineering to distributed systems.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computers Application, Master of Science (M.S.), Computers Application at Symbiosis International UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Application, Bachelor's degree, Computer Application at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
ruby10
devops9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
infrastructure8
testing8
configuration-management7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
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:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 8 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Smriti contributed to the Chef Infra repository by implementing and modifying command-line interface (CLI) tools for user management, specifically the `knife user create` command, and improved the usability of the tool. They also addressed various bugs and improved the functionality of the mount resource, including resolving issues related to loop devices and network devices with spaces in their names. The user also updated configurations, such as the log level in the `knife bootstrap window` and refined test coverage.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
MsysTechnologiesllc/supermarket
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Chef's community platform
Contributions:40 pushes, 16 branches in 3 months
community-platformchef
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