Zidaan Dutta
Software Engineer at Rokt
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZidaan Dutta is a software engineer with nine years of experience building infrastructure and SDKs, currently working on global compute and traffic systems at Rokt in New York. He shipped control-plane and API gateway work on Envoy at Fastly and contributed to both new AWS services and the Python SDK at AWS, where he improved core streaming behavior in the widely used botocore library. A Purdue CS ’20 graduate with a dual degree in Computer Science and Data Science, he blends backend systems design, test automation, and pragmatic Python engineering. His open-source contributions include adding IOBase-like streaming features and robust unit tests to botocore—work that improves data streaming for millions of AWS CLI and boto3 users. He brings a background in research-level parallel processing and hands-on containerized developer tooling, making him adept at both performance-sensitive systems and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Data Science Daul Degree with Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Data Science Daul Degree with Minor in Mathematics at Purdue UniversityHigh School, High School at California High School
English, Bengali, Hindi
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Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
botocore10
data-streaming10
python10
test-automation10
aws-sdk10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
boto/botocore
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
The low-level, core functionality of boto3 and the AWS CLI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 32 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Zidaan primarily focused on enhancing the botocore library by implementing functions for IOBase and adding associated unit tests. They introduced functionalities like `readable`, `readlines`, `tell`, and iteration support within the `StreamingBody` class, contributing to improved data streaming capabilities. The contributions included extensive testing of these new methods, including edge case handling with line iterators. The user also incorporated support for tagged unions and added retry information headers.
aws-cliboto3awslow-levelcli
zdutta/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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