Ajay Shankar
Staff Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Shankar is a Staff Principal Engineer with nearly a decade of experience leading platform and customer-facing initiatives at Atlassian and prior large enterprises like Target. He architects scalable solutions—such as unified schemas and hybrid search models—that drove content unification, reduced support costs, and embedded GenAI-driven self-service into customer workflows. Ajay blends hands-on full-stack development (React front-end and API work showcased in contributions to the popular raycast/extensions) with strategic program execution, taking visions through POCs to phased rollouts. Known for cross-functional collaboration and change leadership, he unites product and engineering stakeholders to remove blockers and align on measurable outcomes. He also mentors emerging engineers and ran a selective JavaScript bootcamp, reflecting a belief that the right mentorship can transform careers. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs attention to detail with a pragmatic focus on cost, relevance, and user-centered design.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
raycast10
typescript10
raycasting10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
extention10
react10
apidoc9
api9
fileio8
nodejs8
filesystem8
gradle7
xcode7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ajay primarily worked on the "projects" and "vim-bro" extensions for Raycast. Their contributions included implementing search functionality, refactoring code, adding new features, and improving overall user experience. They also addressed bug fixes, performed code cleanup, and integrated support for new project types like Tauri and Wails. The user demonstrates proficiency in front-end development with the React framework and also backend code with the creation of fetch calls and working with APIs.
everythingwindowsraycastlinuxneed
ajaypremshankar/ForwardWrite
Sep 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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