Hrishikesh Kokate
Software Engineer at Netlify
Thane, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolHrishikesh Kokate is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience, currently at Netlify where he progressed from Support Engineer to Staff Support Engineer and now a Software Engineer, owning complex escalations and modernizing support tooling. He combines a curiosity-driven, experimental approach with practical delivery—singlehandedly migrating support tooling into a modern, maintainable architecture and building internal tools that improved team workflows. With an MBA in Information Technology and a background in mass communication, he blends technical depth with clear customer-facing communication and mentoring experience, including a brief stint as a visiting professor. Based in Thane, Maharashtra, he also brings creative freelance experience in graphic design and video editing, reflecting a knack for pragmatic, user-focused solutions beyond code. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who seeks to understand not just how systems work, but why, turning that insight into durable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology at Imperial Institute of Advanced ManagementBachelor's degree, Mass Communication/Media Studies, Bachelor's degree, Mass Communication/Media Studies at Dnyanasadhana College - IndiaIndian School Certificate (ISC), Science, Indian School Certificate (ISC), Science at St. Gregorios High SchoolCentral Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Metric, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Metric at D.A.V. Public School - India
English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, French
Stackoverflow
1,145reputation
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50answers
33questions
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
jsonwebtoken10
html10
html5-video10
plyr10
static-site-generator10
nodejs10
svelte10
css10
cms10
vimeo10
audio10
compiler10
ajax10
netlify10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hrishikesh-k/netlify-plugin-bundle-env
Dec 2022 - Jul 2025
A Netlify Build Plugin to inject environment variables in Netlify Functions during Netlify Builds.
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 7 months
netlifynetlify-functionsenvironment-variablesnetlify-plugin
hrishikesh-k/tejal
Sep 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 248 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 7 months
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