Saurabh Shankar
Software Developer Engineer II at North Carolina State University
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurabh Shankar is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS with over a decade of experience building and operating EC2 Systems Manager services, including OpsCenter, Explorer, Inventory, and Configuration Compliance. He holds an MS in Computer Networking from NC State and has deep hands-on expertise in backend systems, DevOps, and agent development—contributing notable enhancements to the widely used open-source aws/amazon-ssm-agent (adding an inventory plugin and improving Windows support). Comfortable across languages and tooling from Java and Ruby to SDK integrations and platform-specific fixes, he brings practical experience from large-scale data processing (EMR) to systems management. Based in Seattle, he pairs rigorous networking foundations with product-focused engineering to deliver reliable, production-grade remote management capabilities.
9 years of coding experience
MS, Computer Networking, MS, Computer Networking at North Carolina State UniversityB-Tech, Computer Science, B-Tech, Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologySenior Secondary, Science, Senior Secondary, Science at DAV Public School - Kota
Hindi, English
Github Skills (5)
go10
aws-sdk10
powershell9
devops8
system-design7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
aws/amazon-ssm-agent
Jun 2016 - Jun 2019
An agent to enable remote management of your EC2 instances, on-premises servers, or virtual machines (VMs).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:59 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 3 years
Contributions summary:Saurabh made changes to the AWS SSM Agent to add an inventory plugin. The primary focus of the user was to implement and improve the inventory plugin, ensuring it can efficiently collect and upload data. This includes adding functionality for a basic inventory plugin and integrating it with the SSM associate functionality. They also modified the agent to use AWS SDK and made changes to the Windows platform support, particularly the architecture, to address potential issues.
instancesecsec2vmsagent
opsgang/amazon-ssm-agent
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 commits in 2 months
ec2amazon-ec2agentamazonremote-management
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