Summary
Shivam Bhalla is a Senior Software Developer based in Bengaluru with 4 years of hands-on experience building backend-heavy microservices and improving reliability at fintech and payments companies. He has strong skills in Python, C++, Go, React and data analytics, and has driven improvements like canary deployments and expanded test coverage across frontend and backend stacks. Shivam has taught competitive programming to thousands as an instructor and runs a popular YouTube channel, Code Explainer, with 15k+ subscribers and 1.5M+ views that showcases contest editorials and interview problems. His dual academic background—MSc in Biological Sciences and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering with a CS focus from BITS Pilani—gives him a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Equally comfortable shipping production services and explaining complex algorithms to learners, he combines developer productivity, testing rigor, and community impact in his work.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science