Shubham Girdhar is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 9 years of experience building and operating resilient, scalable systems across fintech and cloud-native teams, currently at Akka. He blends deep Linux and DevOps expertise with backend engineering in Java, Scala and Go, having improved CI/CD, build tooling and testing for high-profile open-source projects like zio-http. Known for pragmatic automation and improving developer experience, he has a track record of refactoring build definitions, integrating coverage and CI docs generation, and adding robust WebSocket tests. With an MCA from BVICAM and stints at Dream11 and Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs, he brings production-grade reliability practices to distributed systems. Colleagues value his dual focus on developer workflows and operational excellence, often surfacing non-obvious gains by optimizing build and test pipelines rather than only runtime infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Master of Computer Application, Master’s Degree Master of Computer Application at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
A next-generation Scala framework for building scalable, correct, and efficient HTTP clients and servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 94 reviews, 69 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Shubham primarily focused on improving the project's build and testing infrastructure. They refactored build definitions, updated dependencies, and integrated Scoverage for code coverage analysis, including configuring Codecov integration. Furthermore, the user addressed deprecated syntax and added ScalaDoc generation to the CI pipeline, demonstrating an understanding of both backend build processes and code quality. They also made contributions to the WebSocket functionality by adding tests.
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Shubham Girdhar - Senior Site Reliability Engineer II at Akka