Swanand Pagnis
Co-Founder And CTO at Superlinear Insights
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolSwanand Pagnis is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO at Superlinear Insights, with over 15 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, data platforms, and secure custody infrastructure. He has a strong startup track record—scaling teams and architectures at companies like CoLearn, First, Deserve, and Tungsten—while also co-founding consulting and product ventures. A pragmatic engineer who still contributes to open source (notably maintaining and modernizing the acts_as_list ActiveRecord plugin), he combines technical depth in backend systems with a people-first approach to pedagogy and engineering culture. Based in Abu Dhabi but active in developer communities (organiser of regional Ruby conferences), he brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-border product experience, and a knack for turning MVPs into production-grade platforms.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
HSC Science, HSC Science at Fergusson CollegeJnana Prabodhini PrashalaBE Electronics, BE Electronics at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (22)
ruby-rails10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
routes10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
lib9
json9
serialization9
software-update9
versioninfo9
yaml9
versioning9
plugin-development8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brendon/acts_as_list
Feb 2012 - Sep 2019
An ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 18 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Swanand primarily contributed to the `acts_as_list` project, an ActiveRecord plugin for managing lists. Their work involved removing deprecations, adding test cases, and merging code from other contributors. They also bumped the version of the library multiple times, addressing bugs and introducing Rails 4 compatibility and other minor updates. This suggests a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality and compatibility of the library.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubylistsactiverecord
swanandp/oh-my-zsh
Feb 2016 - Jul 2023
A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 120+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, macports, etc), over 120 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Contributions:13 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 6 months
modularityrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-updatecapistrano
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