Summary
Hitendra Shukla is a senior software engineer with nearly a decade of experience building scalable, distributed developer tooling and CI/CD infrastructure for large organizations like PayPal and Uber. He led design and delivery of packaging and pipeline systems that improved build throughput and reduced build times by ~40%, enabling productivity for over 2,000 developers across thousands of instances. Proficient across Java, Go, Python, Kubernetes and cloud platforms, he blends backend systems engineering with practical DevEx improvements such as Jenkins plugins, Argo-based pipelines, and metrics-driven stability work. Formerly a systems engineer at NVIDIA and an Alexa skill developer during graduate school, he brings low-level optimization experience alongside cloud-native architecture skills. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, he pairs a hands-on, metrics-first approach with a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into reliable, production-grade tooling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at COEP Technological University
HSC Science, HSC Science at GBMM Junior College
SSC, SSC at St. John's High School
English, Hindi, Marathi, awadhi