Shrikant Kandula
Platform Engineer
India
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Top SchoolShrikant Kandula is a Platform Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tools, currently working remotely from India and contributing to Appsmith’s platform. He blends strong engineering chops in Python and Java with practical product-minded contributions—fixing APIs, refactoring core logic, and improving docs and UX for widely used open-source projects like Appsmith, IdeaVim, Antigen and Requests. His background includes designing a Python-driven custom index computation platform at S&P Dow Jones and earlier roles across Calypso and KNOLSKAPE, giving him deep domain experience in finance and enterprise software. A Level-1 actuary and Actuarial Fellow-trained professional, he brings quantitative rigor to system design and testing. Beyond production systems, he contributes thoughtful tooling and testing improvements—often addressing edge-case bugs and indentation/text-object semantics in editor integrations—showing attention to both developer experience and correctness.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. [Tech.] Information Systems, Information Technology, M.Sc. [Tech.] Information Systems, Information Technology at Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceActuarial Fellow, Actuarial Science, Actuarial Fellow, Actuarial Science at Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, London
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Github Skills (51)
kotlin10
git10
ideavim10
python10
apidoc10
clientside10
scripting10
http10
command-line-interface10
plugman10
java10
plugin10
vim10
javas10
script10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zsh-users/antigen
May 2012 - Oct 2016
The plugin manager for zsh.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:306 commits, 13 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Shrikant primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `antigen` plugin manager for zsh. Their work focused on enhancing the core functionality of the plugin manager by implementing new features such as the `bundle-cleanup` command and the `antigen-snapshot` and `antigen-restore` commands. Additionally, they refactored existing code and addressed bugs to improve the overall reliability and user experience of the plugin manager. They also contributed to the project's internal architecture by introducing the `antigen-use` command.
package-managerzsh-pluginplugin-managerpluginsshell
appsmithorg/appsmith
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 1791 reviews, 783 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Shrikant was actively involved in improving the functionality and reliability of the Appsmith platform. Their contributions included bug fixes to enhance the performance of APIs. They also introduced new features, such as adding API for user role and goal updating, and ensured the code base was up-to-date by addressing several code-related warnings. They contributed to the improvement of the internal structure by refactoring code.
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