Sherub Thakur

Experience

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  Sapient Global Markets

  Jul 2015 - Nov 2016

  Associate Technology

  Full stack development, primarily involved with frontend development. Worked on JS (React, Redux, etc..), Java 8, Postgres, AWS.- Single-handedly created frontend of a trading platform- Set up deployment pipeline for the trading platform- Took sessions teaching React and Redux

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  Kayako

  Dec 2016 - Jun 2018

  Product Engineer

  I did full-stack development at Kayako with a primary focus on backend development. During my tenure there I implemented various features using PHP, JS, Go, Elixer, Ruby, etc. Here are some of the highlights- Ported a service from PHP to Python- Reduced the ES query length generated by our system by 30%- Contributed to various open-source projects like tidyhtml and bluemonday

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  Shuttl

  Jun 2018 - Apr 2019

  Senior Software Engineer

  Core contributor in the rewrite of a stressed monolith to numerous microservices. Developed the microservices for Routing management, trip management, bookings, fares, refunds, user authentication, user profile, etc.- Acted as the primary reviewer for the rewrite- Created an abstraction layer over Flask for validations, which arguably saved us a tonne of time and code maintenance issue- Created libraries for geometry computations, timing computations, etc.- Optimized numerous API flows Show less

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  Shuttl

  Aug 2021 - Aug 2023

  Part of the platform team, working/reviewing/maintaing core functionalities that make Shuttl. From time to time was the staff engineer for Consumer, Enterprise, Internal tooling teams for their most important flows/features.- Setup various workflows like the creation of PRs, the interaction between Staff Engineers and EMs on non-feature tasks, etc- Formalised code conventions followed at Shuttl.- Proposed and technically led migration of a few microservice to async flow reducing container count by 80%- Proposed and technically led rewrite of one of the services reducing code by 75%- Panned and reviewed various internal libraries from parallel task processing, cron framework, etc- Proposed and technically led migration to python 3.11 reducing response time in services by upto 25%- Experimented with Rust as an option for high-performance parts (Tokio, Actix-Web, Diesel, custom DSL for PostGIS operations built on diesel, custom validations setup using validator-rs, etc.)- Took sessions on Haskell, code design, etc for team members Show less

  • Staff Engineer

    May 2019 - Aug 2023

  • SRE

    Aug 2021 - Jul 2023
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  CodeCrafters.io (YC S22)

  Sept 2023 - Nov 2023

  Course Author

  Authored the following courses- Build your own HTTP server (https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/http-server)- Build your own DNS server (https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/dns-server)

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  UpLift

  Jan 2024 - now

  Senior Software Engineer