Darshan Shaligram
Software Engineer at Amazon
Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarDarshan Shaligram is a software engineer with 18 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems across startups and large enterprises. He has driven critical backend and infrastructure work—from modernizing batch pipelines and introducing Kotlin at Hobsons to building container provenance and security integrations for Amazon’s internal container registry. His work spans languages and stacks (Kotlin, Scala, C++, Rails, React, AWS CDK) and includes performance tuning that produced orders-of-magnitude query speedups and reduced deadlocks. At Amazon he shipped features that measurably increased Freevee engagement by enabling auto-generated video carousels, showing a knack for pairing engineering with product impact. An active contributor to the open-source Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup project, he focuses on core gameplay backend mechanics and map/monster systems, highlighting both systems depth and hobbyist passion. Based in Virginia, he blends pragmatic engineering leadership with a tendency to simplify complex systems for long-term maintainability.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
map-generation9
data-structures9
algorithms8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
crawl/crawl
Aug 2012 - Sep 2015
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Darshan primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the "Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup" game. Their work involved modifying core game mechanics, such as crash milestones and logfile entries. They also implemented features related to subvaults, map definitions, and monster tagging. Furthermore, they addressed issues with fog machines and Shoals map connections, enhancing game playability.
dungeonstonerpgroguelikedungeon-crawl-stone-soup
crawl/sequell
Apr 2008 - Jan 2023
##crawl bot Sequell; depends on https://github.com/crawl/go-sequell
Contributions:1934 commits, 29 PRs, 245 pushes in 14 years 10 months
crawlergolangbotcrawl
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