Sahil Shekhawat
Software Engineer, SRE 3 at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSahil Shekhawat is an SRE-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, large-scale systems at Google and prior roles in web and Android development. He blends distributed-systems and security research—having mapped inter-AS topologies and explored real-world decoy routing—with hands-on production SRE work. An active open-source contributor, Sahil has contributed core logic to SymPy and front-end improvements to SymPy Gamma, and was a Google Summer of Code intern with the Python Software Foundation. He brings practical DevOps and platform experience (including building a Heroku-like PaaS for an institute data center) and a track record of hackathon wins and public speaking at FOSSASIA. Based in Sunnyvale, Sahil combines academic rigor from IIIT-Delhi with product-minded engineering at scale.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (25)
computer-algebra10
javascript10
python10
css10
mathematics10
math10
ui-design10
computer-algebra-system10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
testing9
mechanics9
android-studio9
github8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sympy/sympy_gamma
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
A SymPy version of WolframAlpha.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 4 comments, 2 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sahil primarily focused on improving the user interface and fixing bugs related to the display and interaction of example elements within the SymPy Gamma application. Their contributions involved modifying CSS to adjust spacing and styling of UI elements. They also addressed Javascript issues by making the "random example" button functional and debugging issues with the arrow icon's direction change, as well as making adjustments to the functionality of how examples were displayed on the webpage. The majority of the commits indicate work on HTML, CSS and JavaScript to improve the website's front end.
sympywolfram-alpha
sympy/sympy
Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 8 PRs, 136 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sahil primarily focused on enhancing the `sympy/sympy` repository by implementing and modifying core mathematical logic and mechanics components. Their work involved extending the `Boolean` and `Body` classes, adding functionality to existing methods and addressing bugs. The user also contributed to the test suite, ensuring the robustness of the newly added features and classes.
computer-algebra-systempythonmathcomputer-algebrascience
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