Vishal Gowda

I'm a senior developer at a 100+ developer startup. I have worked extensively in the web domain and primarily in Python. My work involves designing and building end-to-end solutions that operate at scale.

I had previously worked at Klonio, a first of it's kind database version control system. I have extensively worked on MySQL & PostgreSQL. Other than that, I have experience on working with production level deployments of databases, multi-node clustered setups, defining relationships, designing tables, framing optimized queries, and the underlying indexes.

I have worked at startups that employ Django at their core. I have used various django packages/plugins as well in most of these projects. I am aware of framing well optimized queries, enforcing good design & putting Django's powerful ORM to good use among other things.

Among all the SQL databases I have worked with, MySQL is what I'm most comfortable with, in a production setup. I have worked enough to know the impact of choice of table engines, or indexing algorithms, charset and collation related settings for locale support among other things.

My role at my current job is a mix between DevOps and developer. I have configured alarms, snapshots, security groups and worked on auto scaling groups. Basically, I can safely say I know my around the console.

Git would be the only SVCS I have ever used. I know my way around the cli, I have worked in collaborative environments to know the right workflows to employ. Git hooks, I've used extensively for continuous deployments. I am even familiar with hosting a private bare repository.

This is quite a vague yet vast category. I'm primarily a backend developer with some level of DevOps experience. I have worked on various kinds of setups. I am familiar with Debian, CentOS & RHEL based distros. I have worked on VPS's & bare-metal machines. I have a sufficient amount of networking know-how to tackle most issues.