Summary
Madhukar Shankar is a Staff Web Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years’ experience building user-centric web and mobile applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript and React Native. He has driven product-forward frontend architecture at Joblift—co-creating a shared UI package, introducing Playwright e2e testing, and shipping features like JobCoach and Smart Apply that materially improved job discovery and application flow. Comfortable across CI/CD, Docker and GCP, he pairs hands-on implementation with platform thinking to reduce UX dependencies and speed delivery. His background spans large enterprise projects (Infosys) to fast-moving startups (klarx, Joblift), and he holds a Master’s in Informatics from TUM. Notably, he earned an award at Infosys for tooling that automated template migration, showing a long-standing focus on developer productivity as well as user outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Master's degree Informatics, Master's degree Informatics at Technical University of Munich
Higher Secondary Science, Higher Secondary Science at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Shivaragudda (Affiliated to CBSE)
Kannada, English, Hindi, German