Shikha Shakya
Web Developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Summary
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RockstarShikha Shakya is a web developer based in Agra, India, with three years of experience building and maintaining cloud-native systems at Amazon Web Services. She blends frontend and backend sensibilities with DevOps practices, having contributed to the Bottlerocket OS project to improve build-system HTTP compatibility and to migrate container resource limit defaults for ECS variants. At AWS she focuses on practical, production-oriented solutions that bridge configuration management and API-driven tooling. Comfortable operating in large-scale open-source ecosystems, she brings attention to detail in areas like user-agent handling and migration scripting that often go unnoticed but materially improve reliability. Ambitious and hands-on, she pairs everyday engineering work with contributions that enable smoother container hosting workflows.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
linux10
build-system10
rust10
containerization10
cicd10
operating-system10
dockers9
docker9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 83 reviews, 70 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Shikha primarily focused on enhancing the build system and improving the configuration management of the Bottlerocket OS. They added user agent headers to HTTP requests made by the build system to improve compatibility with upstream sources. Furthermore, the user made significant changes related to container resource limits by adding migration scripts to handle the OCI defaults for settings, including resource limits. These adjustments encompass adding settings for ECS variants and enabling API-client updates.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
vyaghras/bottlerocket-core-kit
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
A kit with core software packaged for Bottlerocket
Contributions:54 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
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