Soumitra Shewale
Software Engineer at Stripe
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolSoumitra Shewale is a software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems and improving developer tooling, currently at Stripe and based in Hyderabad. He has a track record in open-source contribution—helping maintain the popular Python Discord community bot—and was a Google Code-in finalist and GSoC student contributor to JuliaLang, reflecting deep interest in community-driven projects. His background blends systems administration at an HPC lab with internships at Twilio and Lemnisk, giving him practical exposure to production infrastructure and real-time services. Trained in both computer science and economics at BITS Pilani, he pairs quantitative thinking with engineering pragmatism and a taste for performance (FLOP/s don't lie).
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree MSc. Economics B.E. Computer Science, Dual Degree MSc. Economics B.E. Computer Science at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
bots10
python10
discord-js10
discord-bot10
discord10
googlebot10
command-line9
command-prompt9
e-mail6
go6
flood-fill6
stdin6
julia6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
python-discord/bot
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
The community bot for the Python Discord community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Soumitra primarily worked on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Python Discord bot. They addressed issues related to markdown escaping in source commands, updated PEP command information, and incorporated linter fixes. Furthermore, the user made code adjustments including moving an embed URL and eliminating a codeblock. These commits demonstrate a focus on code quality, and enhancing the user experience.
python310python311pythondiscord-pythondiscord
soumitradev/secret-archive
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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