About

Shekhar Sharma is a highly skilled software engineer with over 4 years of experience in backend development using Node.js and Typescript. Currently working as a Software Engineer III at Walmart, he has contributed significantly to the development of several key projects, including weekly reservations which increased grocery order conversions by 43%. Shekhar is a proactive team player who has successfully represented his team in stakeholder meetings and finalized contracts with 12 teams. In his previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at Recrosoft Technologies, Shekhar reduced the P95 response time for Landing page API from 10 seconds to 50 ms by optimizing architecture and implementing caching. He also designed the architecture for the chat module and stress tested it for 1M concurrent connections and 2000 messages per second. Shekhar has a strong background in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and bash scripts for complex flows, which reduced operational costs by 80%. He mentored a team of 4 Software Engineers for design patterns and system design, which increased productivity and reduced overall SDLC time by 60%. Shekhar's experience also includes working as an Associate Software Engineer at Chicmic, where he converted an ERP system from monolith architecture to a microservice architecture, improving server costs by 40% and feature delivery time by 50%. He has created multiple MVPs from scratch in different domains, including E-commerce, Social Network, Issue tracking System, and Truck Rental Service. Shekhar is a proactive mentor who has trained a group of 6 interns to learn Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, Jenkins, and microservices architecture from scratch. Shekhar holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran. He has a strong technical background in Software Engineering, Javascript, Backend Development, Testing, Microservices, CI/CD, Docker, MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes, and Kafka. Shekhar is a highly motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about developing innovative solutions to complex problems.