About

Shivam Gera is a highly skilled and experienced Software Developer with over two years of professional experience in backend, software, and platform engineering roles. He is a Computer Engineering graduate with a deep interest in AI and database systems programming. Shivam has a track record of applying his technical skills to complete independent and group projects. He is competent with the practical application of technical skills in Python, C++, Django, PostgreSQL, amongst others. Currently, Shivam is working as a Software Developer at SAS, where he is contributing to developing various backend and frontend services involving NodeJS, ReactJS, Java, etc. Prior to SAS, he worked as a Software Development Engineer at Innovaccer, where he developed micro-services using Python/Django to facilitate the migration of data between Redshift, Postgres, and other database systems. He also re-architected the bulk data movement service from Postgres to Redshift and developed and scheduled automation using airflow for the end-to-end flow of Postgres to Redshift and vice versa. Shivam reduced the time for bulk data sync by 90% by implementing parallelism and data partitioning logic. He also collaborated with apps, QA team for writing back the data to the platform’s databases via REST APIs built from scratch using Publisher-Subscriber model to decrease latency and improve scalability. Shivam designed and implemented Kubernetes wrapper to automate horizontal scaling via REST by spawning up the pods in an automated way, saving costs by 30%. Shivam has also worked as a Platform Engineer at Paysafe, where he worked in partnership with platform teams on the development of micro-services in Java/Springboot to support the Alternate Payments Method system. He curated an SDK for the merchants which uses Paysafe to optimize the payment flow, reducing the latency by 20% and bounce rate by 10%. Shivam maximized coding and object-oriented programming concepts skills to build scalable microservices with 100%-unit test coverage and performed load testing, reducing system failure rate by 40%. He utilized Terraform to reduce the cloud data storage cost by 20% while automating the on-off modes of cloud data stores. Shivam holds an Engineer’s Degree in Computer Science from the LNM Institute of Information Technology, where he studied from 2016 to 2020. He also completed his High School from Asha Modern School in 2015. Shivam is proficient in various technical skills such as Databases, Machine Learning Python, Django, Elastic Search, PostgreSQL