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Debayan Ray

Staff Engineer | Hands-on Django/Python Expert | Cloud & Scalable Architecture

Education

B.E. (Electronics)

NIT, Surat (Gujarat)
2001 - 2005

Career Profile

Hands-on Staff Software Engineer with 20 years of experience crafting scalable, distributed systems and driving technical excellence. Proven track record at Alation, Oracle, HPE, Hyland, mentoring teams, and contributing to opensource projects (OpenStack). Known for thoughtful architecture decisions, innovative problem-solving, a strong bias-for-action, and a commitment to swiftness with quality.

A collaborative engineer who listens deeply (listen-like-you-are-wrong), codes with precision, and thrives in delivering high-impact, production grade solutions. In short, an engineer who every team member and business stakeholder can bank on.

Online profile: https://debayanray.github.io/online-cv/

Experiences

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2021 - Present
Alation, Fully remote (Bangalore)
  • Leading development of multiple Curation & Content modules of Alation. Technical SME for such areas.
  • Active engagement with PS, CSMs, SEs, AEs and Customers for the owning modules.
  • Thriving in a very fast-paced development environment
  • Mentoring and coaching engineering members across teams.
  • Tech skills:
    • Django, DRF - extensive backend development
    • Distributed system
    • PostgreSQL, REST API
    • Celery
    • React, Frontend
    • AWS, Git
    • Data catalog, curation, content & governance

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Oracle, Bangalore
  • Active Developer of Oracle DB LCM on cloud (DBaaS).
  • Tech skills:
    • Distributed system
    • Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, REST API
    • MySQL, Oracle DB (cdb & pdb)
    • Cloud, DBaaS

System Software Engineer V

Apr 2015 - Feb 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE R&D), Bangalore

HPE sponsored Opensource contributor to the OpenStack Ironic project and was owning the Ironic iLO drivers. Served as a core team member of Sushy project.

  • Full ownership of features right from design to functionality testing through CI.
  • Extensive Code review and code contribution to OpenStack.
  • Tech skills:
    • Openstack (IaaS)
    • Distributed system
    • Advanced Python backend
    • Flask, SQLAlchemy, MySQL
    • RabbitMQ
    • Linux, Git, Gerrit
    • Baremetal provisioning, Cloud computing

Other Company experiences

Jul 2005 - Apr 2015
  • Perceptive Software (Hyland software), Kolkata
    • Aug 2011 - Apr 2015
  • Hewlett Packard (HP R&D), Bangalore
    • May 2010 - Aug 2011
  • Infosys, Bangalore
    • Jul 2008 - May 2010
  • GoldenSource India Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai
    • Oct 2007 - Jul 2008
  • Patni, Mumbai
    • Jul 2005 - Oct 2007

Opensource Contributions

Active contributor to Openstack Ironic project from 2015 to 2019. Served as a core team member of Sushy project.

Refer Openstack contribution

Skills & Proficiency

Django DRF Flask Connexion

Python and its ecosystem

DjangoORM SQLAlchemy

Celery Redis RabbitMQ

REST API gRPC

Distributed systems Docker Kubernetes

PostgreSQL MySQL

Git GitHub GitLab Gerrit

AWS