Siddhant Shukla
Software Engineer at WebPageTest by Catchpoint
Kota, Rajasthan, India
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Top SchoolSiddhant Shukla is a full-stack, frontend-focused software engineer with five years of experience building developer integrations and performance tooling. Currently at Catchpoint/WebPageTest, he contributes to developer-facing products—including a widely used WebPageTest Node wrapper (5.8k+ weekly downloads) and a Chrome extension for recording user flows—that reflect his emphasis on web performance and practical developer UX. He has a strong background delivering REST APIs, responsive UIs, and performance optimizations across MERN and PHP stacks, with past work improving application performance by up to 60%. Based in Kota, India, Siddhant combines hands-on engineering with a curiosity for tooling and automation, recently adding CPU-throttling and synchronous test features to the WebPageTest API wrapper to enable more realistic and reliable testing.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Zero To Mastery AcademyBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at SRM University
Github Skills (5)
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
npm7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
catchpoint/WebPageTest.api-nodejs
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
WebPageTest API wrapper for NodeJS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 37 commits, 21 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Siddhant contributed to the WebPageTest API wrapper by adding a CPU throttling parameter, which involved modifying the `lib/mapping.js` file to include the new parameter and its associated properties. Further commits demonstrate changes in the `lib/webpagetest.js` file, including package updates and the addition of a `runTestAndWait` function for synchronous test execution. These changes suggest a focus on extending and improving the functionality of the API wrapper.
apiapi-wrapperjavascriptnodejswebpagetest
catchpoint/WebPageTest.recorder-to-script
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Script to convert Chrome user flow recordings to WPT Custom Scripts
Contributions:24 commits, 16 PRs, 24 pushes in 7 months
custom-scriptsuser-flowchromewptrecordings
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