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Hi there. I'm Shivansh.

The fun-loving guy next door who also happens to be a tech-geek.

I am a software developer at akto.io . I hail from Agra, the city of Taj. Talk to me about tech/sci-fi/books/cinema/art or just life in general.

Cheers :)

Experience

Akto.io | Software developer [Aug 2022-Present] (github: notshivansh)

  • Worked extensively on source code analysis for API use case and developed a good understanding of LSPs, CPG and ASTs
  • Developed AI Agents for API use cases
  • Implemented MCP testing and discovery with a team of 3 developers in under a week, with SSE and event stream supports
  • Implemented eBPF, nginx, envoy, istio, AWS API Gateway traffic collection modules.
  • Increased performance of our traffic connectors to handle upto 4 GB per min traffic, with low overheads
  • Handled and managed helm charts and deployment files for customers.
  • Implemented and managed hybrid SaaS infrastructure and product, which handles over 100k requests per min in traffic.
  • Improved feature packaging and usage measurement for users. Owned billing and packaging infrastructure and product.
  • Built a ton of features including swagger imports, webhook integration, centralized logging storage, support for custom API collections, custom Auth and data types for APIs, custom test libraries among others
  • Implemented our stage setup in kubernetes with automatic rollouts for easy testing
  • Worked a lot on customer success as well and thus have a good understanding of stakeholder management in B2B products.
  • Released a complete UI revamp of the product with a team of 3 developers
  • Built CI/CD support for akto as well as support for github actions.
  • Built end-to-end AWS infra to individually call our testing modules to be available for tryout using pulumi
  • Reduced the deployment time of our AWS services from 15 minutes to under 60 seconds

Wells Fargo | Software engineering intern [May 2022-July 2022]

  • Part of the Consumer and Small Business Banking Technology Team.
  • Designed the product from scratch using figma.
  • Built robust APIs on spring boot and flask.
  • Used Microsoft Azure to host and deploy code, automated jobs to the cloud.

    Projects

    • noobCTF A platform to host CTFs, a CLI-based, retro themed CTF hosting platform.
    • ideaBox An app to find teammates for projects, ideas.(Won Open Innovation at HackTU 3.0)
    • mahadaan An app which connects blood donors to patients.
    • M.A.R.S. A music recommendation system with complete music playback support and upto 30 recommendations from 160k+ songs. (Team Project for IEEE Mega Project 2020)
    • pacman A beautiful rendition of an all time classic game in C++

    Competitive Programming

    Product Case Studies

    Skills

    Languages

    • Java, JavaScript, Go, C, C++, Python, bash

    Frameworks, Libraries and Tools

    • AWS [ EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, Cloudfront, CFT, Athena, Gateway, Functions ], GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, Langchain, Istio, Struts2, k8s, helm, React, Vue, Node.js, Express, Django, Flask, Spring Boot, MongoDB, SQL, git, Figma, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, pulumi, nginx

    Interests

    Education

    Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra | Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology [2019-2023]

    • Grade: 9.02/10
    • Led the Entrepreneurship development cell as technical lead and later as Director(Technology)
    • Led the IEEE Student branch as Treasurer and Vice-chairman
    • Did some theatre and stand-up as well

    Delhi Public School, Agra | Science [2008-2019]

    • Cracked a couple of Exams. Won a bunch of competitions.

    Past highlights

    Other Pages

    • docs a list of resources, stuff, blogs
    • movies a list of movies, series I have seen