Shubheksha Jalan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building Kubernetes-focused systems in Apple's Compute org from London. She has a strong backend and DevOps background—producing resilient Go services at Monzo for financial crime automation and improving restore/backup workflows for Velero—while also contributing full‑stack enhancements to high-profile open-source projects like Webpack and Prometheus. Her open-source work emphasizes refactoring for maintainability and performance, including ES6 upgrades to Webpack plugins and making Prometheus index formats configurable. Comfortable across cloud-native ecosystems and CLI tooling, she blends production-grade engineering with attention to edge cases and operational observability. Notably, she prefers curated professional connections and routes communication via email, and maintains a personal site with additional details.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology
A command line tool to help build, run, and test web extensions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 23 PRs, 2 branches in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shubheksha primarily focused on improving the build and run process for web extensions. Their contributions involved refactoring tasks, fixing caching issues during linting, and streamlining the command-line options. The user also addressed bug fixes related to the `--firefox-binary` option. Furthermore, they added support for configuration files to the web-ext tool, enabling sub-command configuration.
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 55 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shubheksha primarily focused on improving the restore functionality of the Velero project, addressing issues related to service ports and node ports during the restore process. They implemented code changes to handle edge cases, such as missing ports, and refactored code for better modularity. Additionally, the user contributed to the project's CLI, adding features for bulk deletion of resources and refactoring code for improved maintainability. The user also worked on adding metrics to monitor the performance of the backup and restore operations.
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