Shivam Jha is a tech lead and engineering operations leader with 8 years of experience building cloud-native, ML-enabled platforms and resilient backend systems. Currently at GOLGIX, he architects Terraform-driven AWS infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and release engineering to deliver secure, highly automated multi-tenant environments. He has a strong backend pedigree from Mercari and LILA Games—designing BFF layers, internationalized microservices, and game backends while optimizing build pipelines and reducing costs. An active open-source contributor, Shivam helped modernize CCExtractor for Python 3 and improved its OCR quantization and testing performance. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and a mentor, he combines systems-level reliability work with developer experience improvements that speed deliveries.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
CCExtractor - Official version maintained by the core team
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shivam primarily contributed to upgrading the codebase to be compatible with Python 3, affecting multiple files, including those related to API functionality and testing. The changes involved updating import statements, string handling, and other Python 2/3 compatibility issues. The user also modified quantization modes for OCR functionality, enhancing the image processing capabilities of the project. Furthermore, the user updated the libGPAC dependency and removed instances of erroneous parameters from the help section.
CCExtractor's Sample & CI platform. Developed during GSoC 2016
Contributions:182 pushes, 60 branches in 2 years 4 months
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