Siddhant Goel

I've been writing Python code for close to 10 years now, including frameworks such as Django and Tornado. I'm familiar with Python best practices, and have written 2 open source Python frameworks with a few thousand PyPI downloads.

I've written Tornado code for close to 5 years now. I'm familiar with Tornado internals, writing websockets using Tornado, handling asynchronous tasks using Tornado (with the provided IOLoop), as well as general purpose website/API development using Tornado. I've also written an open source module to make it easier to use the SQLAlchemy ORM in Tornado applications (source code here - https://github.com/siddhantgoel/tornado-sqlalchemy).

I've used SaltStack for server deployments at multiple companies now, most recently my own where I'm leading development. I strongly believe developers should be handling operations as well, and think SaltStack enables putting that belief to practice. I've used SaltStack mostly for Python application deployments, which includes server setup, hardening from the point of view of security, application requirements (virtualenv/frontend-assets/etc.) and whatever else the application may demand.

I've been writing client side JavaScript since the days when jQuery was considered the "hot new thing". I primarily use VueJS to build reactive client interfaces, and consider JavaScript an integral part of my portfolio.

My experience with AWS involves handling production applications using the variety of services that AWS offers - including EC2 (in an auto-scaled setting), S3, RDS, and SQS.

I primarily use Git for version controlling the source code I'm handling, in addition to defining Git-based workflows to manage software development in teams.