About

Shikhar Dhing is an experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in Java, Python, Django, and Spring. He is currently working as a Software Engineer (L2) at 1stdibs, where he has designed and developed several features to improve the platform's functionality, including a feature to give discounts on shipping costs on thousands of items in a single click, adding functionality to upload all inventory data of 6M+ items to BigQuery, and automating the fee structure assignment of new sellers. Prior to his current role, Shikhar worked as a Software Engineer at 1stdibs, where he optimized the seller billing calculation time by 85% and memory requirement by 73%, automated adding a bunch of charges (late fee, promotional credit) to sellers, and designed and developed a process to retry important soft bounced emails using mailchimp APIs. He also worked as a Teaching Partner at Scaler Academy, where he helped industry-working people prepare for software engineering interviews and interviewed incoming students on basic Computer Science fundamentals. Shikhar holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara (IIIT V) and has 5.36 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. He is skilled in AWS, Backend, Redis, MongoDB, and Elastic Search, and is a strong engineering professional with a demonstrated history of working in the tech industry.