Vinayak Gote

Java backend engineer · Open-source contributor
Zalando · Adyen · Picnic · OpenRewrite

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About

I'm a backend engineer at Wipro in Pune, building REST APIs with Java 17 and Spring Boot 3 for an enterprise telecom order management system. Outside work I contribute to open-source Java projects, mostly libraries I use or admire.

• 6 merged pull requests across Zalando, Adyen and Picnic
• Member of the NVIDIA AI Aerial / 6G Developer Program, through my work on Sionna
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Learning German toward a Goethe-Institut certificate

Open source

Merged (6)

Org	Pull request	What it does
Zalando	logbook #2301	StatusCodeBasedSink and LevelBasedHttpLogWriter: status-aware log levels (2xx/3xx → TRACE, 4xx → WARN, 5xx → ERROR)
Zalando	logbook #2326	Stops the JSON formatter embedding non-JSON bodies as invalid, unquoted JSON
Zalando	logbook #2327	Guards a bean with @ConditionalOnClass, fixing a startup crash without spring-web
Zalando	logbook #2328	Fixes CachingHttpResponse dropping attributes on withoutBody()
Adyen	adyen-java-api-library #1952	Fixes unescaped regex dots in Service.createBaseURL (shipped in v42.0.0)
Picnic	error-prone-support #2275	Refaster rule: Optional.of(x).orElse(y) → requireNonNull(x)

In progress

Org	Pull request	Status
Picnic	error-prone-support #2291	CollectorMutability suggests JDK-native unmodifiable collectors. Approved, waiting on a second review
Zalando	logbook #2386	logbook-jdkhttpclient module for java.net.http.HttpClient. Sync send() done, sendAsync() planned
OpenRewrite	rewrite-testing-frameworks #1183	AddMissingTestAnnotation recipe for #772. Awaiting review
Kestra	kestra #19219	Keeps title and description on the retry type field. Awaiting review
Kestra	kestra #19081	Fixes UID collisions in IdUtils.fromParts. On hold pending a maintainer decision

Other contributions

• Submitted fixes for TR 38.901 compliance issues in NVIDIA Sionna (#1108, #1111)
• Reported a FormatStringConcatenation bug in Picnic's error-prone-support (#2336)

Projects

Sionna Visualizer · Live Angular 17, Spring Boot 3, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, JWT. A dashboard that makes NVIDIA Sionna 6G simulation results visual, comparable and shareable, with a publication pipeline, multi-simulator comparison and a Claude API integration for natural-language simulation.

Picnic Store Intelligence · Live · API docs Java 21, Spring Boot 3.2, PostgreSQL, Vanilla JS. A prototype of two ideas from Picnic's Page Platform engineering blog series: server-driven page layouts and per-customer section ranking.

Writing

I write about backend engineering, open-source contributions and Java on Hashnode and Dev.to.