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Hi, I am Shubhank

Shubhank Saxena

Engineering Lead at Wall.

I am a passionate software engineer with 2 years of working experience. Mission-driven full stack developer and Deep Learning Practitioner with a passion for thoughtful Product Design, collaboration, and teaching. I’ve always sought out opportunities and challenges that are meaningful to me. Although my academic path has taken many twists and turns, I’ve never stopped engaging my passion to help others and solve problems. As a Web and AI developer, I enjoy using my obsessive attention to detail, my unequivocal love for making things, and my mission-driven work ethic to literally change the world. That’s why I’m excited to make dent in this universe!

Skills

Experiences

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Wall

Jan 2022 - Present, Remote

Discover, join and contribute Web3 communities.

Engineering Lead

Sep 2022 - Present

  • Worked on dockerizing multiple services and apps.
  • Optimized ETL pipelines and reduced cost of storage by migrating legacy data to AWS S3.
  • Managed a team of 5 developers to ship an end-to-end application comprising of backend, frontend and smart-contracts.
  • Shipped a feature which gained traction of 5000 users in one week.
Backend Engineer

Jan 2022 - Sep 2022

  • Create a real-time infra to fetch and process the Ethereum data.
  • Filter and index the on-chain data into Logs, Blocks and Transactions based on Postgresql for future reference and processing.
  • Creating an NFT transitions index on top of this and enriching the data with on-chain and off-chain metadata (image, floor prices, the price action of the collection, NFT ownership change etc.)
  • Created real-time feed of NFT transactions based on Elasticsearch.

Open Source Contributor
GFOSS (Under Google Summer of Code)

May 2021 - July 2021, Remote

GFOSS is a non-profit organization that promotes Openness through the use and the development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece and Europe.

Responsibilities:
  • Worked on segregation of production and development environments, thus allowing for better local development.
  • Integrated CI checks on code quality and unit tests.
  • Added internationalization support for people of various geographies.
  • Created CLI based tool to interact with API endpoints of the MediaCMS instance.
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Backend Engineer
Lime Health

Oct 2021 - Dec 2021, Remote

Embrace continuous patient experience improvement through automated data collection, real-time metrics and assisted analysis.

Responsibilities:
  • Worked on the Health records and survey API, which is based on Ruby on Rails.

Backend Intern
Habbit

Apr 2021 - June 2021, Remote

Habbit is a hobby-based social media platform, where people can share their hobbies and connect with like-minded people.

Responsibilities:
  • Worked on B2C model of business and developed django-based backend infrastructure.
  • Developed data APIs for user and activities
  • Handled deployment to AWS infrastructure.
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Research Intern
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Jan 2021 - June 2021, Remote

IIT Delhi is a public technical and research university located in Hauz Khas, Delhi, which is one of the 7 old IITs in India.

Responsibilities:
  • Creating an AI-driven assisting inflatable jacket for helping the Autistic people with their anxiety attacks and help to lower down their anxiety by monitoring their physiological and bio-signals and applying external pressure to imitate a hug-like situation to calm them down.

Open Source Fellow
Major League Hacking (MLH)

Oct 2020 - Dec 2020, Remote

Major League Hacking (MLH) is the official student hackathon league. Each year, they power over 200 weekend-long invention competitions that inspire innovation, cultivate communities and teach computer science skills to more than 65,000 students around the world.

Responsibilities:
  • Amongst 100 out of 20000 applicants chosen to be Open Source Fellow.
  • Created a package named WellIO.jl, which is being used for parsing and reading ASCII Log Oil well drilling data in Julia
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Education

B.Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering
CGPA: 7.68 out of 10
Extracurricular Activities
  • Founded Developer Student Clubs TIET chapter along with an amazing team of fellow developers.
  • Fellow Core Member of GirlScript Patiala team.
  • Conducted HackTIET, a 24-hour hackathon with 200+ participants.
Seth Anandram Jaipuria School
2015-2017
Secondary School
Percentage: 92 out of 100
Extracurricular Activities
  • Founder of Cyber Crew - SAJS's first computer society
  • Deputy Head Boy for academic session 2016-17
  • Active participant in various debates and Model United Nations

Projects

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Contributor March 2018 - Present

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management.

Tensorflow
Tensorflow
Developer Jun 2018 - Present

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone.

A sample academic paper
Team Lead Jan 2017 - Nov 2017

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Nocode
Nocode
Nothing Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

Toha
Toha
Owner Jun 2019 - Present

A Hugo theme for personal portfolio.

Accomplishments

Linux Foundation System Administrator
Linux Foundation March 2018 - March 2019

This course helps to understand the key concepts such as networking, storage, security, maintenance, logging and monitoring, application lifecycle, troubleshooting, API object primitives etc. It also help to grow the ability to establish basic use-cases for end users.

Machine Learning
Coursera Jun 2020 - Jan 2021

This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, datamining, and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: (i) Supervised learning (parametric/non-parametric algorithms, support vector machines, kernels, neural networks). (ii) Unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems, deep learning). (iii) Best practices in machine learning (bias/variance theory; innovation process in machine learning and AI).

Grokking the System Design Interview
educative Jan 2018 - Sept 2018

This course is a complete guide to master the SDIs. It is created by hiring managers who’ve been working at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. We’ve carefully chosen a set of questions that have not only been repeatedly asked at top companies, but also provide a thorough experience to handle any system design problem.

Mastering Multithreading Programming with Go (Golang)
Udemy Nov 2017 - Mar 2018

Discover how to create responsive and high performance software. Develop programs with Golang that are highly Concurrent and Parallel. Improve your programming skills in Go with more advanced, mulithreading topics.