Saumitra Shukla
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaumitra Shukla is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with eight years of experience building high-performance, distributed back-end systems for enterprises like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Bank of America. He specializes in publish–subscribe, event-driven architectures and has hands-on experience designing gRPC microservices, async non-blocking flows, rate limiting, and multi-tenant cloud delivery—work that improved observability, reliability, and production readiness at scale. Saumitra’s background spans big data ingestion and stream processing (Kafka, Spark, HBase) as well as low-latency financial systems, showing comfort with both batch and real-time workloads. He contributed to open-source tooling around Pub/Sub event decoding and Avro integration, reflecting a practical focus on interoperability and developer onboarding. A UCI master’s graduate with a strong academic foundation and a perfect B.Tech GPA, he combines rigorous systems engineering with pragmatic production deployments.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 4.0/4.0 (WES) - 8.86/10.0, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 4.0/4.0 (WES) - 8.86/10.0 at Vellore Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (9)
avro10
pubsub10
python10
grpc10
salesforce9
apidoc9
api9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
forcedotcom/pub-sub-api
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Sample project to get started with the Pub/Sub API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Saumitra primarily focused on implementing functionality related to processing and decoding change event data within the Pub/Sub API project. They added and modified code to decode bitmap fields, extract relevant data from events, and integrate with Avro schemas. Their contributions include the creation of utility methods and modifications to existing files to enhance the processing of change event payloads. The user also worked on integrating with a Salesforce ecosystem and developing a subscription service that utilizes the PubSub API.
apiget-startedgrpcsalesforcepub-sub
saumitramohan/Dev-Zot
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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