Shailesh Ahuja
Staff Software Engineer at Jenni
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolShailesh Ahuja is a Staff Software Engineer based in Singapore with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-critical systems across startups and large tech companies. He blends hands-on engineering (Python specialist) with product and team leadership, having led teams at Meta, Bear Robotics, and fintech/crypto trading at Caladan to deliver high-availability services and multi-million-dollar deployments. He has deep operational chops—running Kubernetes on GCP with Terraform, migrating real-time robot-cloud communication to MQTT, and integrating blockchain and exchange APIs for DeFi/CeFi arbitrage. An active contributor to scientific open-source (notably improving astropy.io.fits handling of masked FITS tables), he brings a strong generalist’s instinct for correctness, testing, and measurable business impact. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical direction, pragmatic trade-offs, and shipping resilient systems under uncertainty.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science and Computers, High School Science and Computers at Delhi Public SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
astropy10
python10
numpy10
astronomy9
astrophysics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shailesh primarily focused on improving the `astropy.io.fits` module by addressing issues related to writing masked tables to FITS files. Their contributions involved changing the default fill value for float columns to NaN, ensuring proper masking with different data types. They added test cases and modified the code to use `np.allclose` for more accurate float comparisons, and also updated the changelog.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
shaileshahuja/SentimentBlade
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:64 commits in 3 months
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