Tushar Sharma
Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolTushar Sharma is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University with 10 years of experience focused on software design and architecture, refactoring, software quality, and technical debt. He co-authored "Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debt" and is the creator of Designite, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and practical tool-building. His background spans industry research roles at Siemens and long-term technical work in India, giving him a rare perspective that bridges enterprise practice and academic research. Tushar’s PhD in Computer Software Engineering and earlier MS specialization in design patterns and refactoring underpin his expertise in diagnosing and remediating design-level issues in large codebases. Based in Halifax, he combines teaching, research, and hands-on tooling to help teams quantify and manage design decay before it becomes costly.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering at Athens University of Economics and BusinessIndian Institute of Technology Madras
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Github Skills (42)
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java10
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technical-debt10
puppet9
msr9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tushartushar/designite_util
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 6 months
tushartushar/miningSmellData
Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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