Tejinder Jheeta
Chief Instigator
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTejinder Jheeta is a hands-on technical leader and Chief Instigator with 15 years of engineering experience and over seven years building and leading distributed teams to deliver scalable, reliable backend, data, and platform systems. He specializes in cloud migrations, microservices, CI/CD, SRE/DevOps practices, and security-driven infrastructure, driving measurable improvements in availability and organizational efficiency. His roles span startups and large enterprises—most recently at Sailplane on hierarchical planning for production agents—bringing both strategic architecture and day-to-day release engineering muscle. A mentor and recruiter as well as a doer, he bridges research-forward product goals with pragmatic operational practices. Based in Fremont, CA, he pairs an Engineering Physics degree from UBC with active open-source engagement that informs practical tools for automation and service enablement.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Engineering Physics at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (76)
chimera10
tzdata9
compiler9
interpreter9
iana9
toolchain9
ports9
jenkins9
zig9
database8
data-mapping8
ansible8
sql8
opentofu8
timezone8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tjheeta/mysqlex
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Mysql driver for Elixir from Erlang
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 2 months
erlangelixirmysqlmysql-driver
tjheeta/swisseph
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 2 tags in 5 years 1 month
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