Vishal Shingala
Senior Engineer at Postman
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVishal Shingala is a Senior Engineer at Postman with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and API tooling. He specializes in JavaScript and Node.js ecosystems—contributing across server-side libraries and React-based UIs—and has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Postman from intern to senior hire. Notably, he has contributed to the popular open-source openapi-to-postman converter, improving OpenAPI 3.0 dereferencing, schema utilities, and parameter serialization with tests to ensure reliable API spec handling. His background in Information Technology and Computational Science from DA-IICT underpins a pragmatic approach to API design and validation. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs practical product-focused development with a history of shipping robust conversion and validation fixes that ease API-driven workflows.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Ramkrishna Vidyabahvan, Surat.Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Gujarati, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
schema-validation10
api10
openapi10
json-schema10
apidoc10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
postmanlabs/openapi-to-postman
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Plugin for converting OpenAPI 3.0 specs to the Postman Collection (v2) format
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 262 reviews, 315 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Vishal contributed to the `openapi-to-postman` repository by adding and improving support for OpenAPI 3.0 specifications. They focused on enhancing the `deref` and `schemaUtils` libraries, specifically addressing reference resolution for validation and conversion. Furthermore, they made several fixes, including addressing URI errors and fixing issues with parameter serialization, ensuring the tool's accuracy when handling different OpenAPI constructs. They also added tests to confirm the impact of these changes.
postmanapispecspostman-collectionconverting
postmanlabs/raml-to-postman
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 20 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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