About

Shashikant Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer at Uber with over 6 years of relevant experience in the field. He is a graduate and postgraduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, where he pursued Computer Science and Engineering. Currently, he is working at PayPal, Bangalore, as a Software Engineer II. His responsibilities include building APIs that enable internal teams like marketing, P2P, etc. to send communication to users via different channels such as email, SMS, push, and alerts. In his previous role at PayPal, Shashikant worked as a Software Engineer in Activity Services Team, responsible for building an efficient search and data ingestion platform that handled over 200 million events a day. He built a data pipeline for offline processing and storing of payment records, collaborated with PayPal's subsidiary Venmo to develop APIs for ingestion of their transactional data, and developed a schedulable reconciliation pipeline to identify and update outdated/missing records in Elastic Search cluster. Shashikant is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Java, NodeJS, ReactJS, Docker, Typescript, MongoDB, Cassandra, Spring, Jenkins, Microservices, GCP, Mobile, and more. He has also worked on various projects related to P2P, web, Javascript, SQL, search, senior software engineering, research scientist, Elastic Search, DevOps, AWS, Spark, and testing. Overall, Shashikant Sharma is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong educational background and a diverse range of technical expertise. He is passionate about using his skills to develop innovative solutions and contribute to the growth of his organization.