Shikha Aggarwal
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Top SchoolShikha Aggarwal is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services with four years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps solutions across major telecom and enterprise vendors. She progressed from cloud operations and support roles into systems engineering and software development at AWS, bringing practical operational insight to feature development for infrastructure tooling. An active contributor to the widely used aws-cdk project, she added validations and features enabling ALB access-log KMS integration and Route53 aliasing for existing records, plus fixes for EKS Helm installs and VPC modules. Based in Greater Vancouver, she blends back-end engineering with DevOps rigor to deliver secure, production-ready infrastructure code—an approach informed by early hands-on support and cloud ops experience that sharpens reliability-focused design.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Delhi
Github Skills (11)
infrastructure-as-code10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
typescripts10
aws-cdk10
typescript-types10
route539
devops8
helm8
amazon-s37
aws6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:398 reviews, 49 PRs, 160 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Shikha primarily focused on enhancing the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by implementing validations and adding new features to support the Elastic Load Balancer (ALB) and Route53 functionalities. They added validations for KMS key usage with ALB access logs and introduced a function to register existing DNS records as alias targets within Route53. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to Helm chart installations in EKS clusters and also contributed to the vpc-v2 module.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
shikha372/aws-cdk
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:330 pushes, 30 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
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