About

Shaurya Shekhar is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has over three years of relevant experience in software engineering, data structures and algorithms, and the software development lifecycle. At Amazon Web Services, Shaurya is currently working as a Software Development Engineer in Sunnyvale. He has previously interned as a Summer Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon Web Services in the Alexa for Business team, where he worked on an application used to test Alexa Skill permissions using Alexa Developer Console. He used Java, JavaScript, React & Kotlin for this project. Shaurya has also worked as a Full Stack Developer at Morgan Stanley for one year on Java & Angular. He was primarily tasked with backend development work, including the design of controller, service and data layers, exposing REST services, and performing database optimization. He was awarded the Best Team Award internationally for performance. Shaurya's core areas of expertise include programming, data structures and algorithms, software engineering, and the software development lifecycle. He is proficient in several programming languages, including C++, C, Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, and Android Development. He is also skilled in using various tools and frameworks, such as React, Git, Perforce, Jenkins, JIRA, GDB, Valgrind, Linter, Apache Tomcat, Angular, and Spring (JDBC, MVC, etc.). Currently, Shaurya is working as a Summer Intern in the Engineering Division at Airtel, where he has modified the MQTT protocol header to optimize for cloud computing and implemented an interval-based transmission algorithm that allows for support for more than 25,000 devices at any point in time. He has also developed a data-warehousing framework (in Python) for faster OLAP, reducing the disk-space requirement for transactional database by 25%, and used Raspberry Pi & AWS to build a prototype. Shaurya has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from VIT, and he is currently pursuing his Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also worked as a Grader at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, grading projects, quizzes, and final exams for Machine Organization and Programming (CS 354) in Spring 2020. Shaurya's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS,