Shishir Kumar

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and low-level programming.
Proven track record in designing scalable cloud solutions.
Strong background in performance optimization and debugging.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy SaaS Engineer with expertise in distributed systems and performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsC (programming Language)JavaC++

Other Skills

Rust (Programming Language)Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)BashREST APIsFreeBSDPython (Programming Language)HeuristicsAlgorithmsSoftware DevelopmentData StructuresObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)

About

Senior Software Engineer with around 7 years of experience in backend and low-level systems program- ming, distributed data storage systems, and network protocol development using C/C++ on Linux and FreeBSD. Strong background in operating systems, networking, multithreading, performance optimiza- tion, debugging, memory management and system internals.

Experience

7 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Zscaler

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Designed and implemented a distributed logging framework across storage database instances in 4 cloud
deployments, capturing per-query latency and failure details for auditing, serving 3,000–4,000 customer
organizations per cloud
Developed an asynchronous query monitoring system across 4 cloud clusters (around 30 nodes each),
allowing queries to run independently of client sessions with results available after completion.
Built the CASB Common table consolidating data from 8 tables, enabling remediation of sensitive CASB
assets through the UI

Distributed SystemsC (Programming Language)

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

JavaC (Programming Language)

Versa networks

Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Implemented UDP-based health probing from secondary nodes to monitor primary availability and trigger automatic failover.
Developed configuration synchronization between high-availability nodes to keep critical settings consistent and prevent out-of-sync states.
Implemented TWAMP-based latency, jitter, and packet loss measurement to monitor connection health and enable automatic failover to healthier SD-WAN paths

C++C (Programming Language)

Tcs research & innovation

Summer Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Analysis of the requirements of the software design for the COIN team.
The project involved analyzing of the different database aspects and the user stories involved with the different users.