Shankar J.

Product Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 7 years of experience in data engineering.
  • Contributed to Python and Django open-source projects.
  • Led community projects with professors from IIT and Stanford.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer with strong expertise in Machine Learning and Open Source contributions.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Technical WritingOpen Source ContributionTeam LeadershipPythonMachine Learning

Other Skills

API DevelopmentApache KafkaApache PigApache SparkBig DataCCode refactoringConvolutional neural networksCoordinationCourse reviewingData ScienceDataset handlingDeep LearningDeep learningDjango

About

Shankar Jha, an experienced principal data engineer with over 7+ years of expertise across various domains including backend development, data engineering, networking, technical writing, and freelancing, actively contributes to the Python & Django codebase as an open-source contributor. His writing spans technology, health, spirituality, and positive psychology, and he has contributed significantly to the creation of technical courses and served as a technical editor for a book by Packt Publication. In his leisure time, he enjoys nature and has collaborated with professors from institutions such as IIT and Stanford for community projects. Here's how he can assist you: Master Python: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9828079/ Explore more: https://shankarjha.in/ Links to his work: #Python & Django: 1. https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-makes-the-python-cool-426e4c576685 2. https://medium.com/@shankarj67/what-makes-django-cool-5d7cad83de5c 3. https://qr.ae/TWNb6C 4. https://medium.com/@shankarj67/everyone-should-contribute-to-open-source-190c96f6bd63 He has written a lot of quora answers and helped thousands of beginners: https://www.quora.com/profile/Shankar-Jha-20 His post also got published on one of the popular podcasts called https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/91/will-there-be-a-pyblazor Link for his talk: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shankarj67_shankarj67bangpypers-python-is-cool-activity-6603982864235229184-5UFB "Awesome-climate-change" repository: https://github.com/shankarj67/Awesome-Climate-Change-AI For inquiries, email Shankarj67@gmail.com.

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs
Current Experience

Springml, inc.

Principal Data Engineer

Jun 2021 – Present · 5 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Packt

Freelance

Oct 2019 – Jul 2020 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Open source contributor for Official Python, Django and Mozilla codebase.
  • Working as a technical writer on a topic like code-quality, course structure and climate change that
  • brings more viewers to their website.
  • Provided 1-on-1 technical support via phone and email for creating the e-learning course.
  • Design and develop a website that results in the top page of the google search that derives a
  • business revenue by 30%.
  • Got an offer to build a fully-fledged e-commerce website to handle all the transactions.
  • Led the team of 30 members and co-founded an NGO to help thousands of underprivileged people.
  • Refactored old code to be more readable and manageable.
Open source contributionTechnical writingWebsite designTeam leadershipCode refactoring

Udacity

Secure and Private AI Scholarship

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos

  • • Learning on how to apply security in Machine learning and Deep learning domain.
Machine learningDeep learning

One fourth labs

Teaching Assistant (Deep Learning)

Feb 2019 – Aug 2019 · 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Helping and Coordinating with IIT’s Professor in Deep Learning Course.
  • Managing slack channel and answering all the queries asked by the participants.
  • Reviewing Blogs and Codes submitted by all the participants.
Deep learningCoordination

Hacker noon

Technical Writer

Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 · 0 mo

  • Here is my article which also got featured on one of the best podcast of python https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/91/will-there-be-a-pyblazor
Technical writing

Google

Facilitator

Jul 2018 – Feb 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • • Selected to become a Facilitator for the Google Machine learning crash course in Bangalore
Machine learning

Inkers technology

Research Internship

Mar 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Implemented Convolutional neural network from scratch by working on MNIST Datasets
  • Worked on various SOTA models such as DenseNet, ResNet, YoloV2 for image recognition and detection by working on CIFAR-10 and other popular datasets.
  • Got selected for phase 2 which is currently going on.
  • All the code and blog will be hosted here: https://github.com/shankarj67/Mlblr
Convolutional neural networksImage recognitionDataset handlingMachine learning

Https://powerfulpython.com/

Course Reviewer

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · Online

  • • Reviewing a Python course and helping the author to improve the Quality of course.
Course reviewing

Skillspeed

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Trained over more than 1000 students in Python, including how to write quality code with unit
  • testing.
  • Automated a lot of manual tasks using python, as well as designed RestAPIs built using Flask or
  • Django rest framework.
  • Provided leadership as a subject matter expert (SME) for Python, Django and Machine learning
  • technology to get the proper requirement from the clients.
  • Responsible for driving business by 30% by working on their flagship LMS product and got
  • promoted to the senior developer after handling it successfully.
  • Successfully installed cloud lab for running more than 50 programming language using open source
  • technologies.
  • Here is what they say about me: http://bit.ly/skillspeed
PythonFlaskDjangoMachine learningLMS product development

Education

ASANSOL ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

freeCodeCamp

Full Stack Web Development Certification — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

D.A.V KOYLA NAGAR

High School

Jan 2004 – Jan 2012