About

Shikhar Subedi is a seasoned Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in delivering high-quality, scalable, and performant solutions to meet business and customer needs. He is an expert in backend development and has extensive experience in creating microservices for distributed web applications. Shikhar is passionate about employing best coding practices such as unit testing, integration testing, clean code, and code reviews to develop reliable applications. Currently working as a Software Engineer II at Liveperson, Shikhar is responsible for developing a microservice to enable surveys from Medallia to the liveperson chatbox. He also designs and implements a system to manage auth token between various Kubernetes pods and creates RESTful API endpoints to communicate with third-party services. Shikhar works with Node.js and Typescript with Cassandra as the persistent store and implements unit tests in Jest to ensure code coverage above 85%. In his past roles, Shikhar worked as a Software Engineer Node.js Microservices at B-Stock Solutions, where he created microservices using Node.js and Express that expose RESTful APIs. He wrote unit tests and integration tests with an aim for 100% coverage, worked extensively with event-driven architecture using RabbitMQ for asynchronous communication for microservices, and dockerized applications and created pipelines in Gitlab for continuous integration. Shikhar also worked with PHP and MySQL for features in the legacy application. As a Senior Software Engineer at Freedom Financial Network, Shikhar worked with Node using Typescript and NestJs framework to build backend projects. He optimized SQL queries by refactoring and using indexes, developed REST clients using Guzzle HTTP to integrate with other lenders, and refactored legacy code for better maintainability and software design. Shikhar also wrote unit tests for all the features he developed, ensuring an 80% code coverage. Shikhar holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Computer Engineering from Kantipur Engineering College. His technical skills include Software Engineering, Microservices, Javascript, NodeJS, Typescript, Cassandra, Backend, RabbitMQ, PHP, MySQL, test, Integration, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Web, and CI/CD. With 13.88 years of relevant experience, Shikhar is a valuable asset to any organization.