Shikhar Bhushan
Co-Founder And CEO at s2.dev
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShikhar Bhushan is a seasoned software leader and founder with 17 years of experience building scalable, low-latency systems and developer-facing infrastructure. As Co-Founder and CEO of s2.dev, he’s applying deep systems expertise to durable stream storage while previously leading search, ads, and recommendation engineering at Etsy where he architected cloud-native retrieval engines and a CDC-powered streaming platform. His background includes high-scale datastore work at Facebook and contributions to open-source projects across Java, Python, and Rust—most notably early work on SSHJ (SSH/SFTP for Java) and performance-focused changes to search and async IO libraries. Comfortable shipping core backend improvements and protocol-level fixes, he blends hands-on engineering with product-driven leadership and a track record of turning complex distributed problems into reliable production systems.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
F25, Making, F25, Making at Y CombinatorB.A., LL.B., Social sciences and Law, B.A., LL.B., Social sciences and Law at Symbiosis Law School, PuneB.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Constructor University
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (34)
asynchronous10
search-engine10
python10
apidoc10
async10
java10
javas10
api10
network-protocol10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
xml10
protocols10
rust10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hierynomus/sshj
Feb 2010 - Sep 2014
ssh, scp and sftp for java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:399 commits, 2 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Shikhar primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Java library for SSH, SCP, and SFTP. Their work included refactoring code, renaming classes and methods, and refactoring the SFTP implementation to include better support for file attributes. They also made improvements to the example code and added additional features like support for multi-line password prompts.
ftpssftpsshssh-clientsftp-client
ncclient/ncclient
Apr 2009 - Apr 2011
Python library for NETCONF clients
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:218 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Shikhar primarily worked on the core logic and implementation of a NETCONF client library. Their contributions focused on the design of network operations, especially within the SSH transport layer, including connection handling, message processing, and the handling of various error conditions. The changes involved creating specific elements and working with an element-building system, and overall the user demonstrated a solid understanding of the NETCONF protocol. The user also made improvements to SSH and RPC handling.
python-libraryncclientpythonofficial-python-netconfnetconf
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