Shashank Sharma
Software Development Engineer II at Coursera
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShashank Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer based in New Delhi with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems, full-stack applications, and data pipelines across startups and mid-size product companies. He has shipped production services at Coursera and HackerRank—including a coderunner service that processes coding submissions and an automated language-version upgrade framework—and has strong expertise in cloud migrations, data engineering (Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow) and microservices. Comfortable across Python, Go, Scala and modern orchestration tech (Kubernetes, Hasura), he’s delivered measurable performance gains like a 60% improvement in SQL submission execution at HackerRank. An early open-source contributor, he enhanced the FOSSASIA Google Code-In website’s front end, showing attention to UX as well as backend robustness. Known for enjoying engineering itself, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with a curiosity for infrastructure, security and data-quality tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PCM, PCM at Delhi Public School - IndiaBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Acropolis Institutions
Stackoverflow
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51answers
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Github Skills (12)
html10
css10
user-interface10
site-design9
javascript9
responsive-design9
website-design9
image6
beautifulsoup6
python6
image-scaling6
django6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/gci15.fossasia.org
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
FOSSASIA Google Code-In Website 2015/16 http://gci15.fossasia.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 22 PRs, 8 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Shashank primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and visual elements of the FOSSASIA Google Code-In Website. Their contributions include editing and optimizing the slider control, adding and updating social media icons like Flickr, and refining the layout by fixing heading and font size issues. Moreover, the user improved the website's functionality by linking images to GitHub profiles and updating alt tag names in the student's game section.
google-code-injavascriptfirebase
shashank-sharma/mythical-learning
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:90 commits, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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