Saransh Shankar
Backend Intern at Origin
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSaransh Shankar is a backend-focused software engineer and Integrated MTech student at ABV-IIITM with three years of practical experience across cloud-native systems, ML, and full-stack development. He has contributed test and integration work to the high-profile CNCF Jaeger project—improving Cassandra UDT tests, ES factory initialization, and metric consistency—which underscores his emphasis on reliability and observability in distributed systems. Comfortable in Go, Node.js, the MERN stack, and Flutter, Saransh has built production-grade features from REST APIs to Android apps and led QA efforts and reusable component development. His roles range from data science work applying NLP models for candidate assessment to co-founding and shipping a MERN-based e-commerce site, showing both product instincts and engineering breadth. Based in Bengaluru, he’s currently a Backend Intern at Origin and actively blends open-source collaboration with practical cloud and ML tooling.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated MTech Information Technology, Integrated MTech Information Technology at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management
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Github Skills (12)
distributed-tracing10
testing10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
cassandra10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
observability9
opentelemetry9
cnc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:161 reviews, 14 PRs, 237 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Saransh primarily contributes to the Jaeger tracing platform by adding and integrating tests to ensure the reliability and functionality of core components. Their work includes creating unit tests for Cassandra integration, specifically focusing on testing the UDT functionality, and moving existing tests to the shared integration test suite for broader applicability. Moreover, the user worked on initializing the ES factory in integration tests and ensuring metric consistency across different components of the tracing system. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the overall quality and test coverage of the Jaeger project.
distributedtracingjaegertracingobservabilitycncf
Wise-Wizard/jaeger
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Contributions:335 pushes, 14 branches in 7 months
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