Shivam Kumar
Software Developer at Public Policy and Governance Society, IIT Kharagpur
Asansol, West Bengal, India
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Top SchoolShivam Kumar is a software developer with 9 years of experience building scalable web applications and data-driven solutions, currently working on a cloud-kitchen platform using Next.js, TypeScript, Firebase and microservices. He blends full‑stack engineering with a strong quantitative bent—holding a civil engineering degree and a masters in financial engineering from IIT Kharagpur—and has applied Bayesian and ML methods to environmental and transport problems. At The Home Shef he designed reusable atomic UI components, real‑time Firestore schemas and role-based auth flows, while previously doubling chat throughput and streamlining CI/CD as a backend intern. Beyond code, he leads tech and policy research initiatives at IIT Kharagpur, creating a semester-long program (Insight Ignite) to train juniors in public policy and governance research. Comfortable moving between product engineering, data science and policy, Shivam is notable for combining uncertainty-aware modeling with practical production systems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Certificate for Secondary Education., (ICSE): 96.8%, Indian Certificate for Secondary Education., (ICSE): 96.8% at St. Patrick's H.S. School, AsansolFIITJEEBachelors in Civil Engineering & Masters in Financial Engineering, Bachelors in Civil Engineering & Masters in Financial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Github Skills (27)
python10
java10
cpp10
creative-commons10
javascript9
kubernetes9
questions-and-answers8
pullrequest6
dialogflow-es6
actions-on-google6
github-api6
github6
git6
runtimes6
dialogflow-fulfillment6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shivam-k/Bugs
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:104 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
shivam-k/guide
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:89 pushes in 7 months
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