Shimul Chowdhury
Senior Software Engineer at Kraken
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolShimul Chowdhury is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience, now based in Nuremberg, Germany, who specializes in backend development, cloud-native infrastructure, and DevOps. He has a proven record of performance tuning and system rewrites—doubling API performance at TrustYou and delivering 4x faster reporting through SQL optimization at Divine IT. A frequent open-source contributor, Shimul has improved both front-end and back-end aspects of the widely used Open edX platform, adding navigation enhancements and new APIs that improve course and assessment workflows. Comfortable designing infrastructure as code and CI/CD for Kubernetes, he also brings hands-on mentorship and hiring experience, having served as Recruitment Manager while contributing 90% of his work to the Open edX community. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has fixed critical production bugs and reduced a subsystem’s bug volume by 80%, demonstrating an emphasis on reliability and operational impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering at International University Of Business Agriculture And Technology
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (23)
openedx10
python10
django10
workflow-management10
back-end-development9
javascript9
front-end-development9
html9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
data-service7
webservice7
css7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-ora2
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Open Response Assessment Suite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shimul primarily focused on enhancing the Open Response Assessment Suite's workflow logic. Their contributions included making peer-dependent steps skippable, adding support for flexible peer grading, and addressing related issues. These changes involved modifications to the `AssessmentWorkflow`, `AssessmentWorkflowStep`, and related test files, directly impacting the assessment process. The user also worked on integrating a pluggable editor, specifically TinyMCE, for submissions.
assessmentpythonsuite
openedx/openedx-platform
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shimul contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the Open edX platform. They updated the styling of the course content search page by modifying JavaScript and related HTML templates. They also introduced a new setting for customizing certificate date formats and added an API for retrieving course membership details. Additionally, the user enhanced the courseware interface by incorporating breadcrumbs and streamlining navigation elements.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
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