Vipul Sharma
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolVipul Sharma is a software engineer with nine years of experience building developer tools and cloud-native infrastructure, currently a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft. A graduate of IIT Mandi, he previously shipped UI and backend features at GitHub where he maintained actions/cache, built REST APIs serving 5k+ daily requests and helped cut customer incidents from roughly 240 to under 70. He spans frontend work on Electron-based Zulip Desktop to backend automation, AKS migrations and on-call reliability engineering. Based in Dharamshala, he combines an automation-first mindset with a love of travel and a knack for "converting chai into code."
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
School, School at Aadhunik Public School, SidhbariBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.50 CGPA, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.50 CGPA at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
Github Skills (25)
dependency-management10
caching10
github-ci10
javascript10
electron10
github-actions-workflows10
javascripts10
build-automation10
github-action-workflow10
github-actions-workflow10
ui-d9
webview9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
frontend-development9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
actions/cache
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 73 reviews, 90 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Vipul focused on maintaining and updating the build and automation processes within the repository, as demonstrated by the commits. They resolved dependency alerts by updating packages, and modified build configurations to ensure that the project could build. Furthermore, they updated dependencies which are part of the caching system, indicating their role in maintaining automation.
dependencieslruoutputscachingcache
zulip/zulip-desktop
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Zulip Desktop client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 47 PRs, 357 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Vipul primarily contributed to the Zulip Desktop client, focusing on fixing bugs and improving the user interface. They disabled a broken PDF viewer window in the electron application and also fixed an organization cycling issue in the sidebar menu. Moreover, they added features like "copy Zulip URL" in the context menu and application menu items and also addressed focus issues after soft reloads in the webview.
zulip-desktopelectronwindowszulipchat
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