Shamasis Bhattacharya
Fellow at Postman
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShamasis Bhattacharya is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years building scalable developer tools and APIs, currently driving AI-and-API innovation as a Fellow at Postman in Bengaluru. He played a foundational engineering role at Postman—authoring the Postman Runtime, unifying architecture as Chief Software Architect, and leading Postman Labs to ship breakthroughs like the Universal API Client, Postman Flows, and the company’s first GenAI product, Postbot. A hands-on engineer and maker, he maintains influential open-source work at Postman (notably initiating Newman v3 and enhancing the postman-collection SDK), blending backend, CI/DevOps, and SDK design. Earlier, he helped steer FusionCharts’ shift from Flash to JavaScript and founded a cryptography-focused startup, giving him deep experience in APIs, security, and developer UX. Colleagues know him for turning 0→1 ideas into production-ready platforms and for tinkering with hardware and IoT outside work—evidence of a builder who pairs systems thinking with practical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at West Bengal University of Technology, KolkataICSE Computer Science, ICSE Computer Science at Don Bosco School, Liluah
English, Hindi, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
json-parser10
json10
javascript10
newman10
testing10
jsonp10
cil10
url-parsing10
cicd10
parsing10
postman10
nodejs10
charts9
google-visualization9
highcharts9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
postmanlabs/newman
Feb 2015 - Aug 2021
Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:51 reviews, 330 commits, 188 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shamasis significantly contributed to the Newman project by initiating the codebase for version 3, including improvements for Windows compatibility and system tests. They implemented and maintained CI scripts and incorporated linting and dependency management tools. The user also modified the run module, incorporating changes like cloning of options object and the addition of new features like the use of the summary object.
api-testjenkinsjson-reportnewmanhttpie
postmanlabs/postman-collection
Feb 2016 - May 2019
Javascript module that allows a developer to work with Postman Collections
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 344 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shamasis primarily worked on improving the core functionality of the Postman Collection SDK, implementing a number of changes to the URL parser and the internal representation of data, such as variables. The user's contributions include refactoring the variable substitution logic using a `SuperString` class, which likely improved the efficiency of variable resolution. Furthermore, the user added features like JSONP parsing in response objects, expanding the parsing capabilities of the SDK to include JSON responses, along with fixing some minor bugs that related to URL parsing.
postmanpostman-collectionsjavascriptsdkpostman-collection
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