Subash Adhikari is a Head of Engineering and polyglot software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping serverless, cloud-native systems primarily on AWS from Australia. He has driven architecture and delivery improvements at scale—leading migrations to microservices and CI/CD pipelines, building payment integrations, and boosting team velocity through agile transformations. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced popular Serverless Framework plugins (including work on CloudWatch alarm integrations and fast esbuild bundling with watch mode), showing practical expertise in Lambda, CloudFormation, and developer tooling. Known for translating strategy into maintainable roadmaps, he pairs hands-on backend and DevOps skills with people leadership across startups and scale-ups. Outside work he’s a proud father of twin daughters, a detail that reflects his ability to balance high-responsibility roles with personal commitments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at CQUniversity
Diploma in Interactive Digital Media, Diploma in Interactive Digital Media at Western Institute of Technology
Master's Degree Information Technology, Master's Degree Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology
A Serverless Framework plugin that creates CloudWatch alarms for functions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 releases, 2 reviews, 61 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Subash primarily contributed to the development of an AWS Serverless plugin. They focused on enhancing the functionality of the plugin, including fixing unresolved references, merging resources, and integrating features related to external CloudFormation stacks for alarms. The commits demonstrate a solid understanding of serverless architecture, particularly with AWS Lambda, and the integration of CloudWatch alarms. Additionally, the user implemented features for handling and customizing alert topics.
💨 A Serverless framework plugin to bundle JavaScript and TypeScript with extremely fast esbuild
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Subash primarily contributed to the development and improvement of a serverless plugin for bundling JavaScript and TypeScript projects using esbuild. They implemented features such as adding a watch functionality to automatically recompile on file changes and configured the watch behavior. In addition to feature work, they also addressed bugs, updated type definitions, and refactored code for improved clarity and maintainability. The user also added example configurations for the new watch feature and removed a console log.
esbuild-pluginbundlerbundleserverlessesbuild
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