About

Shashank Mishra is a skilled software development engineer with a background in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He has 2.86 years of relevant experience in the field of software development, with a focus on cloud computing, microservice architecture, and devops. Currently, he is working as an SDE at Amazon (AWS), where he is responsible for developing software applications that cater to the needs of Amazon's customers. Shashank is a competitive programmer and has participated in international coding competitions like Google Code Jam, Facebook Hacker Cup, and ACM ICPC. He is also a regular participant in Codechef and Codeforces contests. He has worked in the field of NLP, focused on NER (named entity recognition), and has a keen interest in the application of quantum machine learning. During his college years, Shashank completed four internships, including three corporate and one research internship. He worked with Razorpay, where he was involved in developing X-apps involving vendor-payments, tax payments, and adv tax payments. He was responsible for security, latency, and scalability and worked on Gateway integration frameworks for secure interaction with external APIs like banking. He also worked with Publicis Sapient, where he was responsible for developing a platform to improve the current Ayco.com financial coaching services offered to employees from leading Fortune 500 companies for Financial Wellness and Planning. Shashank's favorite programming language is C++ for low latency application design. He believes in the quote by Sir Albert Einstein, "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." He is also a fan of anime and resonates with Jiraiya Sensei's quote, "There is only one thing that matters if you are a shinobi, and it isn't the number of jutsu you possess. All you do need is the guts to never give up." Shashank's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS, NLP, ML, Research Science, Microservices, DevOps, Integration, Golang, MySQL, MongoDB, test, designer, Docker, Javascript, Tensorflow, iOS, Flask, Mobile, Web, and Java.