Shaleen Jain is a consultant and engineer with 13 years of cross-functional experience spanning backend development, DevOps, and public policy work. He combines an MBA from IIM Kozhikode and international study in Lyon with a BTech in ECE, enabling him to bridge technical implementation and strategic decision-making. As an active open-source contributor he has improved core multimedia playback in the widely used VLC project and maintained production-ready Matrix server deployments using Ansible and Docker. Comfortable in enterprise and government environments, he has interned at Amazon, contributed to NITI Aayog’s green transition work, and now consults from Gurugram. Colleagues know him for a solution-oriented, analytical approach and a genuine curiosity about people and cultures that informs his collaborative, systems-level thinking.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Business, Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Business at Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering
🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shaleen primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the infrastructure for the Matrix server deployment using Ansible and Docker. Their contributions included modifying systemd service files, updating configuration files for Dendrite and Synapse, and adjusting settings related to app services. The user also made updates to the mautrix-whatsapp bridge configurations and implemented changes to address feature requests.
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Shaleen primarily contributes to the VLC media player's demux modules, addressing bugs and improving functionality. Their work includes parsing language codes in Matroska files, fixing heap-buffer-overflow issues in STL demuxer, and initializing booleans in the AVI demuxer. They also refactored configure scripts, added unit tests, and integrated decoder functionality, demonstrating a focus on improving multimedia playback and compatibility.
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