Shivshankar Sheri
Senior Engineer at L&T Technology Services
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShivshankar Sheri is a Senior Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in software and embedded systems, specializing in Golang, C/C++, Lua, and Linux. He has driven feature development and performance optimization for distributed cache services (Redis, Valkey, KeyDB) at Huawei and contributed to the Valkey open-source datastore, including TLS and CLI improvements. Comfortable debugging complex multithreaded systems, he routinely uses Git, Jira, Splunk, and Tableau to triage production issues and improve observability. His background spans consumer homeware (OpenWRT/Technicolor) and large-scale data analysis at Comcast, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and product-facing diagnostics. Now at L&T Technology Services, he continues to deliver reliable, test-driven solutions while mentoring cross-functional teams. Colleagues rely on his methodical problem-solving and knack for turning subtle data patterns into automated, repeatable fixes.
2 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Github Skills (20)
tcl10
testing9
tls129
tls139
mtls9
libtls9
shell8
sh8
c178
script8
c118
key-value-store8
scripting8
caching7
databases7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
valkey-io/valkey
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
A flexible distributed key-value datastore that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 55 PRs, 67 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shivshankar primarily focused on modifying test files and scripts related to TLS testing and other core functionalities. Their contributions involved renaming test certificate files, renaming procedures, and updating test environments with new configurations. The user also updated the project's CLI, renaming instances of "redis" to "valkey" in comments and output. Furthermore, the user made changes to internal macros, test utilities, and install scripts.
cachedatabasekey-valuekey-value-storenosql
Shivshankar-Reddy/valkey
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
A new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis project. We're calling it Valkey, since it's a twist on the key-value datastore.
Contributions:174 pushes, 93 branches in 11 months
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