Shikhar Agnihotri
Senior Software Engineer, SMTS at Salesforce
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShikhar Agnihotri is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building backend and full‑stack systems at scale, currently at Salesforce after progressing through roles from intern to SMTS. He blends NLP and systems expertise from CMU with production engineering at Walmart and D. E. Shaw, working on high-throughput services that supported billions in revenue and automated 350K+ daily jobs. Comfortable across backend, mobile push, and frontend UI, he has contributed user-facing improvements to notable open-source projects like Mozilla Send. Based in Bellevue, he pairs rigorous CS training with a pragmatic focus on measurable impact, often surfacing small UX refinements that materially improve product usability.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Intelligent Information Systems School of Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Intelligent Information Systems School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySt.Columba's School, New Delhi
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
javascript10
ui-design9
responsive-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/send
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Simple, private file sharing from the makers of Firefox
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 101 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shikhar primarily focused on front-end UI enhancements for the file-sharing application. They implemented a toggleable password feature, modifying the display of passwords using "●" characters. The user improved the visual presentation of the application, changing fonts and improving the mobile display of popups. They also added download limit and time remaining information to the file display.
firefox
shikhar-scs/hckm
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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