Shishir Sharma
Senior Engineering Manager at Zoom
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShishir Sharma is a senior engineering leader based in Ottawa with over a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native products and teams across startups and large platforms. Currently leading Zoom Apps, he has a track record of launching new platforms, hiring and managing geo-distributed teams, and partnering closely with product, support, and customers to drive adoption and delight. His background spans hands-on systems and backend work—from SlideShare’s high-throughput conversion and search infrastructure to PepperTap’s logistics systems that scaled to millions of orders—bringing deep expertise in performance, reliability, and operational excellence. Known as "H4x0r" in earlier roles, he combines hacker instincts with structured management to move fast without sacrificing quality.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
AISSCE, PCM-IP, AISSCE, PCM-IP at Tagore Public SchoolEngineer's Degree, Electronics & Communication, Engineer's Degree, Electronics & Communication at Jaipur Engineering College & Research Center
English, Hindi
Github Skills (138)
dashboard10
postgresql10
athena10
python10
messaging10
bots10
sms10
vim10
botkit10
chat10
conversational-ui10
bot-application10
pandas10
emacs10
chatbot10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
storypokerbot/storypokerbot
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
A Planning poker bot for Slack
Contributions:4 PRs, 69 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
botslack-botplanning-pokerslackplanning
shishirsharma/Unthrottle
May 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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