Tejas Dinkar
Cofounding CodeMonkey And Generally Jobless Fellow at Myca
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTejas Dinkar is a seasoned full-stack engineer and technology leader with 17 years of experience building scalable products for digital media and cloud platforms. As a founding engineer and former VP/Head of Engineering at Quintype and Head of Cloud at Dgraph Labs, he has led teams to ship high-throughput APIs and managed platform launches like Dgraph Cloud and Slash GraphQL. Comfortable across Clojure, Ruby, Go, and Node.js, he combines hands-on coding with platform and DevOps expertise—reflected in widely used open-source projects like Malibu and Black Knight. He’s an active open-source contributor (from a popular Sublime Ruby test plugin to Cloudflare worker tooling) and has designed systems serving billions of API requests monthly. Based in Bengaluru, he blends startup founding experience with operator discipline and a knack for pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Colleagues describe him as a software craftsman who prefers solving hard problems over job titles—hence “Generally Jobless Fellow.”
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science in Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science in Engineering at PES UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyNational Academy of Learning
English, Kannada, French
Github Skills (23)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
ruby10
go10
sublime-text-plugin10
testing9
cicd9
regular-expression9
database8
distributed-systems8
databases8
minio7
gnu-make7
filesystem7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
maltize/sublime-text-2-ruby-tests
Dec 2011 - Jun 2013
Sublime Text 2 plugin for running ruby tests! (Unit, RSpec, Cucumber)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:62 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tejas primarily contributed to the development of a Sublime Text 2 plugin for Ruby testing. Their work involved implementing features like switching between code and spec files, adding syntax verification, and refactoring code structure with a base class. They also improved performance by ignoring specific directories and enhancing the plugin's functionality for running tests, including support for running tests by line number.
cucumberrspecrubysublime-text
dgraph-io/dgraph
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 60 commits, 63 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tejas contributed to the testing and build process of the Dgraph database. They added a `--timeout` option to the test script, fixed the `make image` command for OSX, and addressed RAM allocation issues for Docker on Mac. Furthermore, they modified the build and deployment scripts and introduced code to use S3 credentials, demonstrating an understanding of both backend and DevOps tasks.
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