Shankar Nair
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolShankar Nair is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high‑performance systems, currently contributing to Uber from Sunnyvale, California. He has held senior and principal engineering roles at Akamai where he focused on scalable networking and CDN-related software, and earlier spent formative years developing embedded and network solutions at Movik Networks. With an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and a background as a graduate researcher and teaching assistant, he blends strong academic foundations with hands‑on production delivery. Known for moving between hands‑on implementation and architectural thinking, he brings deep experience in distributed systems, performance optimization, and operationalizing complex services. Colleagues would note his steady progression into leadership roles and his knack for simplifying hard engineering problems into reliable, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Github Skills (18)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
aggregator10
graphite10
sidecar10
paxos10
prometheus10
promql10
counter10
monorepo10
buffered10
pmm9
raft9
query-engine9
golang8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shaan420/smartgateway
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
shaan420/SpeedQueen
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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