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Shounak Dey
Personal information
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Birthday: February 24
E-mail: shounakdey@ymail.com
Contact information
Twitter: sdglitched
LinkedIn: sdglitched
GitHub: sdglitched

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: sdglitched
Fedora e-mail: sdglitched@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: sdglitched.fedorapeople.org
 


About me

I'm a developer who focuses on evolving large community platforms into reliable and maintainable systems. I specialise in turning caffeinated ideas into clean, efficient, and open-source software, because good code should be free, like unsolicited opinions on the internet.

By day, I work as DataWarehouse engineer, designing and optimizing large-scale Data Warehouse solutions, driving automation, and ensuring system reliability.

By night, I contribute to open-source for giving to the communities and evolving my knowledge.

If it's quirky, technical, and helps people. Count me in 💪

Fedora Contributions

For the last couple of years I've be contributing towards the Fedora Applications working closely with the Fedora Infrastructure Team on modernising legacy services and resolving the prehistoric issues which other barely touches.

TAHRIR TAHRIR-API


Revamping the Fedora Badges to have latest REST API implementation for the endpoints with modern fullstack architecture for the frontend.

- PR's- Tahrir

- PR's- Tahrir API

W2FM & W2FM-Messages


Expanded Fedora messaging infrastructure capabilities through GitLab webhook integration.

Fixed cross-platform event schema bug impacting message consistency across Fedora's distributed infrastructure.

- PR's- W2FM

- PR's- W2FM-Messages

PAGURE EXPORTER


Implemented secure tag migration capability which helpled CentOS infrastructure migration from legacy Pagure to GitLab.

Automated the mention sanitisation, enabling safe migration of issues whilst preventing security vulnerabilities.

-PR's- Pagure Exporter

MDAPI


Enabled clean URL routing by stripping trailing slashes.

Enabled isolated downloads using hidden temporary directories with post-processing file moves.

Added support for custom port selection via CLI.

-PR's MDAPI

-PR's METASOURCE

MIRRORMANAGER


Architected REST API replacement for legacy XML-RPC check-in system, eliminating deprecated protocols and improving scalability (In Prog...).

Improved user experience and enhanced mirror discoverability by implementing geographic filtering with country-based search.

-PR's Mirrormanager

DATANOMMER


Optimised message retrieval performance by implementing materialised database views for high-volume operations.

-PR's Datanommer

FIRMITAS


Elevated code quality standards by achieving 100% test coverage from 87%

-PR's Firmitas

Badges Acquired

Till now I received 6 badges.

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