M J Shashank
Engineering Manager at Nirvana Insurance
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolM J Shashank is an engineering manager based in Tokyo with over a decade of experience building teams and scaling cloud-native systems from the ground up. He has led core platform efforts at HackerRank that provisioned hundreds of thousands of cloud IDE workspaces monthly and designed a data platform ingesting millions of submissions for near-real-time insights. As a founding engineer and later leader at Nirvana Insurance, he blends clear product thinking with pragmatic engineering to balance technical needs and business goals in fast-moving environments. He also co-founded a Y Combinator‑backed startup that delivered a metropolitan-scale automated bike-sharing product, demonstrating his ability to translate product vision into operational deployments. Notably comfortable across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems and stakeholder collaboration, he favors fast iteration while maintaining reliability at scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering at SRM UniversityICSE, Mathematics, Science with Computer Science, ICSE, Mathematics, Science with Computer Science at Vidya Niketan School, BangaloreCBSE, Mathematics, Science with Computer Science, CBSE, Mathematics, Science with Computer Science at CMR National Public School, Bangalore
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (81)
language-server-protocol10
theia10
eclipse10
devtools10
kubernetes10
ide10
editor9
script9
scripting9
electron9
java9
typescript9
javascript8
tabs-management8
firefox-addon8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mjshashank/personal-website
Nov 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 6 years 10 months
mjshashank/che
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Eclipse Che: Next-generation Eclipse IDE. Open source workspace server and cloud IDE.
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
cloud-idenext-generationchetheiaworkspace
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