Agniva De Sarker
Head Of Engineering at Adalat AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAgniva De Sarker is a Head of Engineering with 13 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and driving architecture-level improvements that scale for large user bases. Based in Bengaluru, he combines deep Go and Postgres expertise with hands-on work across full-stack, devops, and CI/CD, and maintains the popular npm package tldr. At Mattermost he led major performance and database optimizations—introducing Redis pub/sub, RPC-backed DB drivers, and cross-team roadmaps—while contributing code, docs, and blog posts to spread the knowledge. He’s an active open-source contributor to prominent projects including golang/go, graphql-go, and Mattermost repos, often improving performance, test coverage, and build reliability. His background includes rebuilding complex distributed systems for startups and consulting on geo-distributed, Kafka-powered streaming architectures. Notably, he pairs production-grade engineering with tooling and automation work (CI bots, build optimizations), showing a bias for reproducible, observable systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology Information Technology at Jadavpur UniversityHigh School, High School at Kalka Public School
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Github Skills (68)
tooling10
postgresql10
web-application10
testing10
plugin-development10
bash10
ci-cd-pipeline10
webserver10
web-development10
backend10
code-optimization10
javascript10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mmctl
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
A remote CLI tool for Mattermost
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 10 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Agniva contributed to the `mmctl` project by addressing bugs, implementing features, and improving the overall codebase. They focused on fixing an issue related to setting array values in the configuration, adding a warning for the local mode in the config migrate command, and fixing a version check. The user also updated dependencies and addressed issues related to automatic retries when downloading exports. These contributions show expertise in Go and the project's underlying configuration and export functionalities.
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mattermost/mattermost
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3733 reviews, 690 commits, 2054 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Agniva's commits primarily involve back-end development tasks within the Mattermost platform. They focused on improving session cleanup by moving logging statements and storing low-level methods to return errors upwards. The changes also involved modifying the database storage layer by integrating with JSON functions, and making several optimizations. The user also touched on the areas of front-end with a skip of a flaky test, improving performance.
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