Vikas Shetty is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems and improving operational efficiency. He has a strong knack for mathematical problem solving and performance optimization, demonstrated by halving ELT runtimes and cutting BigQuery costs by 60% at Sahaj. Vikas has engineered diverse systems—from pricing engines and global inventory stores to image-based logo classifiers and customer-support chatbots—often driving migrations to cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes. A Rust enthusiast and occasional open-source contributor, he enhanced the test suite of the widely used mlpack C++ ML library, improving logistic regression callback coverage. Now at Teya, he continues to blend pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for formal rigor and automated testing.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at SRM IST Chennai
mlpack: a fast, header-only C++ machine learning library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Vikas primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the `mlpack` library. They added a new test case for the Logistic Regression implementation, specifically targeting its callback functionality. Further commits included fixing and improving existing test cases. The changes involved modifying test parameters and correcting style issues within the tests.
A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. Its Rust-Lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!
Contributions:71 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
rustyrustlightninglightning-networkbitcoin
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