Vidit Chitkara
Software Engineer at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVidit Chitkara is a software engineer with nine years of experience building web applications, currently at Meta after recent roles at Google and Expedia Group. He has a strong Ruby on Rails and Java background and a track record in both front-end and back-end work, contributing to notable open-source projects like openSUSE/osem and Public Lab's plots2 where he fixed rendering, PDF, auth, and UI issues. Vidit combines enterprise experience with e-learning domain expertise from Coding Ninjas and hands-on internship roots, giving him a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable features. He holds a BTech in Computer Science and is pursuing advanced study at USC (MS CS), reflecting ongoing investment in technical depth. Colleagues value him for digging into tricky bugs—such as ticket PDF overflow and OpenID edge cases—and for improving contributor workflows and UX in community projects. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends open-source collaboration with large-scale product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Bharati Vidyapeeth's College Of Engineering,Delhi
Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
rspec9
collaboration8
pdf-generation8
openid8
video-conferencing7
wikipedia7
event-emitter7
event-sourcing7
conferencing7
eventing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 63 PRs, 31 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Vidit made several contributions to the Public Lab Plots2 repository, primarily focusing on the front-end and back-end development. They implemented new features like tooltips for banned users, fixed broken subscription links, and improved the user interface. Additionally, they added image validation in research notes and introduced a time-bound version of the contributor count method. The user also addressed bugs and improved the functionality of the commenting and user profile sections.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
openSUSE/osem
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 16 PRs, 89 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vidit primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the `osem` project, an event management tool. Their work included fixing errors in schedule page rendering, resolving a ticket PDF overflow bug, and addressing issues related to OpenID authentication. The user also added a description field to the CFP (Call for Papers) feature and corrected ticket turnover calculations. They also made changes related to updating the currency of the tickets.
eventsevent-managementrailsrails-applicationtailored
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