Ashish Shekar
SDE 3 at BookMyShow
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Shekar is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience and a current SDE 3 role at BookMyShow, where he has risen through the ranks since 2021. He blends backend, mobile (Android/iOS), and cloud expertise—having shipped performance-critical migrations, replication layers, and scalable APIs across startups and product teams. An active open-source contributor, he developed Android utilities like the storage-chooser file picker with polished UI features such as a memory bar and custom path selection. Comfortable across full-stack stacks (LAMP → ME(A)N) and low-level mobile internals, he brings a pragmatic, performance-first mindset to complex engineering problems. Based in Bengaluru, he writes “serious code for fun,” reflecting a continual drive to learn and improve developer-facing tooling.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Vidyalankar Institute Of Technology
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu
Stackoverflow
98reputation
15kreached
5answers
2questions
Github Skills (19)
ios10
android-development10
android-developer10
android10
android-developers10
mobile10
filepicker10
ui-design9
android-sdk9
front-end-development9
uid9
nested6
mongodb6
android-viewpager6
ios-simulator6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
codekidX/storage-chooser
Nov 2016 - Jan 2022
Lets user choose files in internal or external storage with just few lines of code.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:28 releases, 272 commits, 26 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ashish primarily contributed to the development of the `storage-chooser` library, focusing on the implementation of the Android file picker functionality. They added new features like the integration of a memory bar and custom path selection. The commits demonstrate the implementation of UI components and handling user interactions for file and directory selection within the Android environment.
external-storageinternallinesfile-pickerstorage
codekidX/xcode10-vscode
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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