Shankar Jha
Senior Staff Software Development Engineer at Zscaler
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShankar Jha is a Principal Data Engineer based in Bengaluru with eight years of experience building data and backend systems, leading teams, and driving product growth in Agile environments. He combines hands-on Python and Django expertise with practical ML experience, having implemented deep learning models and supported secure/private AI learning initiatives. As an open-source contributor and technical writer, he has influenced Python/Django communities, reviewed courses, and served as a technical editor for Packt, with work featured on podcasts and popular tech outlets. He has a track record of automating workflows, improving code quality, and boosting business metrics—once helping a site reach top Google results and increase revenue by 30%. Beyond engineering, he mentors large cohorts of learners, collaborates with academics from IIT and Stanford on community projects, and curates an "Awesome-Climate-Change-AI" repo that reflects his interest in socially impactful AI. Quick learner and polymath by practice, he blends developer craftsmanship with teaching and community-building.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Future Institute Of Engineering and Management
English, Hindi
Github Skills (21)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
surepassio/aadhaar-esign-web-sdk
May 2020 - Jun 2020
eSign the documents easily with SurePass Aadhaar eSign Web SDK.
Contributions:38 commits, 34 pushes, 13 tags in 19 days
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shanku007/ArchiveJournalDownloader
May 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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