Himanshu Shekhar
India
Summary
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SeniorHimanshu Shekhar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with nine years of hands-on experience delivering reliable backend and cloud-native systems. He is currently at Databricks, driving data-engineering infrastructure, after a career at Alteryx where he re-architected cloud engines, built SQL pushdowns, and delivered a Redis Streams-based DAG orchestrator that significantly boosted performance and reduced costs. His full-stack versatility spans back-end and DevOps, including contributions to Go and Python tooling, Bash scripting for proxy configurations, and improving code quality with robust error handling. He co-founded RemoteHost to simplify cloud dev environments and has mentored engineers while leading large-scale platform renewals during acquisitions and migrations. An active open-source contributor and hackathon winner, he holds IIIT Allahabad dual degrees in IT and robotics and brings a customer-first, pragmatic approach to turning complex requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
algorithms10
web-proxy10
python10
linux10
bash10
proxy10
data-structure10
http-proxy10
regular-expression10
go10
http-request10
regular-expressions10
data-structures10
http-requests10
proxypac10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
himanshub16/ProxyMan
Dec 2015 - Apr 2020
Configuring proxy settings made easy.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 releases, 147 commits, 36 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Himanshu primarily worked on configuring proxy settings within a bash script called ProxyMan. Their contributions focused on modifying the script to support various proxy configurations, including those for different environments (terminal, desktop, package manager, etc.) and tools (apt, npm, git, dropbox). The user added features such as setting environment variables, handling authentication, and providing options to unset proxy configurations. Further improvements include adding checks for sudo and gsettings availability.
proxylinuxworkaroundproxy-settingsbash
giampaolo/psutil
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 PRs, 20 comments, 2 issues in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Himanshu primarily contributed to a Python-based utility for checking broken links within files. Their work involved developing the core functionality for extracting and validating URLs, as well as adding enhancements like concurrency for improved performance. They also focused on improving code quality through linting, bug fixes, and implementing more robust error handling. Additionally, the user addressed dependencies and build configurations for this utility.
cpumemorypythonosxsensors
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