Vishal Dalwadi
Individual Contributor (Level 2) at Netmaker (YC W22)
Nadiad, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolVishal Dalwadi is a pragmatic software engineer with six years of experience building backend systems, platform tooling, and DevOps automation, currently contributing at Netmaker (YC W22). He has moved between product engineering and platform roles—setting up Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD with Jenkins, and Terraform-driven infrastructure—to reduce manual toil and improve reliability. His open-source contributions include backend and DevOps work on Netmaker, enhancing host management, license validation, and SaaS-focused email flows for a WireGuard-based networking project. Equally curious beyond software, he studies neuroscience, immunology, astronomy and aerospace in his spare time, bringing interdisciplinary curiosity to technical problem solving. Based in Nadiad, Gujarat, he combines strong systems-level knowledge (databases, distributed systems, OS) with hands-on experience shipping resilient cloud-native services.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, 8.96, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, 8.96 at Dharmsinh Desai University
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Github Skills (21)
networking10
wireguard10
e-mail10
go10
email-templates10
network10
emailjs10
apidoc9
api9
kubernetes-pods8
security8
kubernetes8
devops8
cloud-computing7
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gravitl/netmaker
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Vishal primarily focused on updating email templates, including changes to the subject and body content, specifically tailoring them for SaaS tenant and remote access client use cases. The user also refactored email utility functions and styles. Additionally, the user contributed to the addition of endpoints for syncing and upgrading hosts, including a force upgrade option, reflecting work on host management and system control. The user also added retries to license key validation and improved error messages.
automatesnetmakercnizero-trustvirtual-networking
squarebat/Message-Broker-System
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 29 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
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