Sumit Chahal
Full Stack Engineer at Deel
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Top SchoolSumit Chahal is a seasoned full-stack engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building scalable products at Deel while actively integrating AI tools into daily workflows. He has a strong track record at Internshala driving cost, performance, and reliability improvements—leading migrations of 100k+ videos to an in-house platform, cutting media costs, and implementing monitoring and deployment practices that slashed MTTR and eliminated downtime. Equally comfortable in front-end and backend work, Sumit has delivered high-performance React/TypeScript UIs, Dockerized services, and Python/Node microservices for dynamic content generation. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to Django-based conference tooling and meticulous documentation work, showing attention to both code quality and developer experience. Pragmatic about security and ops, he has hardened containers, migrated password hashes to Argon2, and optimized AWS costs by moving ML workloads to Graviton2. Based in Gurugram, he combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and process improvements that make teams faster and systems more resilient.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), RohtakFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (21)
restructuredtext10
video-conferencing10
python10
django10
rs10
read-me10
conferencing10
documentation10
database-migrations9
markdown9
markdown-it9
database-migration9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
duffn/dumb-password-rules
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
A compilation of sites with dumb password rules.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily focused on updating the project's documentation, converting the existing README.md file to README.rst format. They added a table of contents, fixed image paths, and localized the table of contents. Furthermore, the user added a new entry about Paytm, and removed an incorrect claim from the NordVPN entry, suggesting an active role in maintaining and improving the project's content.
passwordssecuritydumbsitespassword
pythonindia/junction
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Junction is a software to manage proposals, reviews, schedule, feedback during conference.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Django-based backend of the "junction" repository. Their work involved resolving issues related to voting functionality, migrating database schemas, and enhancing the user interface by redirecting after logout and adding title attributes for more precise timestamps. The commits show active involvement in proposal management, including permissions and data display optimization within the conference management system. The user also addressed code style inconsistencies using tools like flake8.
pythonjunctiondjangoproposalsruby
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