Shiv Menon
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShiv Menon is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years building high-scale, resilient platforms—most notably growing the GT Nexus/Infor Nexus platform to serve 75,000 customers and manage roughly $1 trillion in goods. He has deep expertise in performance, reliability, and multi-cloud infrastructure, having driven containerization, service discovery, and failover tooling, and led initiatives that doubled batch pipeline performance and cut contention by 50%. At Reddit he focuses on core services and infrastructure, working with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, and cloud datastores to enable service teams to scale reliably. Known for being embedded in time-sensitive, high-priority incidents, Shiv combines architectural strategy with hands-on execution and a knack for pragmatic tooling that surfaces hard-to-find performance issues.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communication, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communication at Cochin University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (21)
exporter9
pgbouncer9
gradle9
gradle-kotlin-dsl9
gradle-plugin8
prometheus-exporter7
docker7
cartodb6
groovy6
http-api6
api5
prometheus5
transaction5
java-client4
java4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sshankar/dotx
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
sshankar/nvim-config
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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