Summary
Shashikant Ingale is a seasoned software quality engineer with over a decade of experience designing and executing test strategies for hardware-software integrated medical devices and cloud platforms. Currently a Staff Software Test Engineer on the da Vinci (dV5) surgical robot program at Intuitive, he blends deep domain knowledge in embedded systems with cloud-native test automation using Python, Kubernetes, and Elasticsearch. His background spans startups and large R&D organizations—bringing pragmatic automation, risk analysis, and defect-tracking discipline from Cala Health to Broadcom. Trained in systems engineering (C-DAC) and holding an MS from Clarkson, he is also a Certified ScrumMaster and IBM Certified in Cybersecurity, which informs his focus on safety, compliance, and resilient test design. Passionate about neuromodulation and improving chronic care, he pairs hands-on tooling (Selenium, Robot, RabbitMQ) with a systems-level view that anticipates integration failure modes across hardware and cloud. Based in Mountain View, he quietly bridges academic insight and product-driven execution to deliver measurable reliability in regulated, mission-critical devices.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School English/Language, High School English/Language at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Master’s Degree Science, Master’s Degree Science at Clarkson University
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
High School Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Mathematics and Computer Science at Fergusson College
Post Graduate Diploma System Software Development, Post Graduate Diploma System Software Development at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
English, Hindi, Marathi