Vishal Chandratreya
Senior Associate, Capital One Software
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVishal Chandratreya is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently a Senior Associate at Capital One Software where he builds data protection solutions. He combines strong academic credentials from IIT Kharagpur (MTech) and NITK (BTech) with hands-on experience in storage and verification at Samsung Semiconductor, including NVMe SSD controller testing and memory compiler automation. An active open-source contributor, Vishal has improved mathematical text rendering and image-based tests in the widely used Matplotlib project and maintains a PyPI package, Scrollable Containers. He favors pragmatic, test-driven development and has experience across backend, test automation, and hardware-adjacent software. Outside work he’s an avid reader and outdoor enthusiast—an experienced trekker who’s summited peaks like Kumara Parvatha and visited Himalayan Bhrigu Lake—reflecting persistence and curiosity that carry into his engineering.
9 years of coding experience
Secondary School Certificate, 90.36%, Secondary School Certificate, 90.36% at Thane Police School - IndiaHigh School Certificate, Science, 93.08%, High School Certificate, Science, 93.08% at Pace Junior Science CollegeMaster of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 9.72/10, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 9.72/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurBachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 9.68/10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 9.68/10 at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Marathi, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (11)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
matplotlib10
test-automation9
latex9
data-science8
syntax6
tkinter6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
matplotlib/matplotlib
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
matplotlib: plotting with Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 11 commits, 17 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Vishal's contributions primarily focused on fixing and improving the mathematical text rendering capabilities within the Matplotlib library. This includes addressing issues related to the vertical alignment of overunder symbols, decimal points in Mathtext strings, and spaces in Mathtext. Furthermore, the user implemented and enhanced image comparison tests to ensure the correct rendering of mathematical expressions, with a particular focus on SVG rendering and LaTeX compatibility. The user also fixed broken links to MathML torture tests.
pythondata-sciencegtkdata-visualizationplotting
tfpf/mersenne-twister
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
High-performance 32- and 64-bit global-state (thread-unsafe) and thread-safe uniform pseudorandom number generators for C, C++ and Python. Provided as an installable package.
Contributions:3 releases, 11 PRs, 374 pushes in 6 years 2 months
cglobal-statemersenne-twistermt19937mt19937-64
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