Sashi Kumar
Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSashi Kumar is a Staff Backend Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable distributed systems with a strong focus on developer experience. Currently at GitLab, he progressed from Senior to Staff Backend Engineer, bringing pragmatic leadership to large engineering efforts and production-grade services. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as Dapr, improving runtime reliability, metrics, and state/store integrations—work that reflects deep familiarity with cloud-native, event-driven architectures. Comfortable across the full backend stack, Sashi is known for turning complex distributed systems problems into maintainable solutions and improving observability and middleware behavior. Eager to learn new technologies, he blends careful engineering with a product-aware mindset honed at companies from Personio to Freshworks and Oracle.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at College of Engineering, GuindySt Sebastian's school
Tamil, English, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
go10
grpc10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
microservices8
container8
microservices-application8
http8
event-driven8
testing7
state-management7
debugging7
debug7
xml6
android6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dapr/dapr
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sashi primarily contributed to improving the Dapr runtime, specifically focusing on areas such as metrics, state store API, and input bindings. Their commits demonstrate a focus on bug fixes, particularly addressing issues with logging, unpopulated metadata, and incorrect configurations within various components. Furthermore, the user implemented and reviewed changes related to the integration of monitoring and metrics within the gRPC framework and HTTP middleware.
sidecarserverlessruntimeevent-drivenmicroservice
ksashikumar/Forli-client
Jul 2017 - Nov 2024
Ember app for Forli
Contributions:4 PRs, 28 pushes, 17 branches in 7 years 4 months
emberjsember-addonember-appember
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