Sumanth Shankar
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSumanth Shankar is a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with ~9 years of professional experience, currently focused on backend-heavy systems engineering. He has deep hands-on experience building scalable microservices, high-throughput GraphQL/REST APIs, and reliable orchestration flows—skills honed across startups and large payments platforms like PayPal where he delivered zero-downtime migrations, parallelized downstream calls, and observability that cut incident detection time by 40%. Comfortable in small, scrappy teams, Sumanth emphasizes shipping business-critical features first—a lesson learned from two early startup failures that shaped his pragmatic, customer-centric approach. He blends strong backend expertise (Java, Node.js, Spring Boot) with production practices including Redis caching, Kubernetes/EKS deployments, and CI/CD automation. Known for driving reliability (93.7% test coverage at PayPal) and measurable performance gains (latency reductions up to 40–70%), he prioritizes problem-solving and user satisfaction over flashy features. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering discipline to deliver simple, dependable products that scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science - MS, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science - MS, Computer Science at California State University, Los AngelesBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at City Engineering College
Github Skills (86)
javascript10
angular10
typescript10
ngtools10
nodejs10
react10
web-developer9
web-performance9
angular-material9
protractor9
web-framework9
mediarecorder8
firebase8
mediarecorder-api8
compilation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HebbaleLabs/angular-webpack2-starter
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
A complete Angular 2 and Webpack 2 starter seed with minimal and full featured branches. Full featured branch includes: Material Design 2 (Bootstrap 4 branch available as well), @ngrx, HMR, DLLs and optional use of Universal for server-side rendering - Supports AOT (offline) compilation, sync and lazy loading. Karma/Protractor for e2e/unit tests.
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 82 comments in 6 months
branchesfull-featuredserviceworkerbootstrap-4unit
ShankarSumanth/Angular2-RecordRTC
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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