Hi, I'm Shashank 👋
Software Engineer | Data Scientist
SHS

About

I am a software engineer with 3+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in production. I specialize in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and performance optimization across cloud-native environments. I am driven by a deep curiosity and a hunger to solve complex problems - whether it is improving data workflows, optimizing APIs, or deploying robust, fault-tolerant services. I thrive in fast-paced environments where continuous learning and impact go hand in hand.

Work Experience

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University of British Columbia

Sept 2024 - Present
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant for CPSC 310, CPSC 319, and DSCI 310, assisted students in software engineering, project development, and data science workflows. Led agile discussions, provided guidance on software design, reviewed project deliverables, discussed software design principles and graded assignments covering Git, Docker, Quarto, and reproducible workflows.
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IBM

July 2021 - August 2024
Software Engineer
Improved performance of policy and claims APIs in a Spring Boot microservices application by refactoring slow PostgreSQL queries and adding indexing, reducing data retrieval time by over 30%. Built Kafka-based messaging between microservices to automate workflows like policy renewals and claim submissions, allowing real-time updates across billing and notifications systems. Integrated Kafka with Spring Boot to enable reliable event publishing and consumption. Containerized microservices using Docker and set up Docker Compose to run the full system locally, including Kafka and PostgreSQL, making it easier to test and debug service interactions. Wrote unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mockito to ensure correctness of policy logic and improve confidence in deployments.

Education

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University of British Columbia

2024 - 2025
Master's of Data Science (MDS)
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Bangalore University (UVCE)

2018 - 2022
Bachelor's of Technology (BTech) in Information Science and Engineering

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
Typescript
Python
PostgreSQL
Docker
Kafka
REST
gRPC
Microservices
AWS
Kubernetes
PyTorch
Pandas
My Projects

Check out my latest work

Patient Management System

Patient Management System

Built a microservices-based patient management system using Spring Boot, Kafka, gRPC, and an API Gateway. Deployed with Docker on Railway, it demonstrates event-driven communication between services like patient, billing, and analytics, while the API Gateway orchestrates requests and handles service routing.

Java
Spring Boot
PostgreSQL
Docker
Kafka
gRPC
Microservices
API Gateway
Website
Source

E-commerce Sales Dashboard

Built an interactive E-Commerce Sales Dashboard to help store managers analyze sales performance, regional trends, and fulfillment methods. Designed for data-driven decision-making, it transforms raw sales data into actionable insights.

Python
Dash
plotly
pandas
Website
Source
pysorting: A Python Package for Sorting Algorithms

pysorting: A Python Package for Sorting Algorithms

Developed a Python package that offers an interactive platform to explore and understand popular sorting algorithms. Designed for students and educators, it features customizable implementations of key sorting algorithms, making it an excellent tool for both learning and teaching sorting concepts.

Python
Pytest
Poetry
CI/CD
Docs
Source
Hackathons
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    WiDS Case Competition

    Vancouver, BC

    Developed a regression model in Python using XGBoost to predict monthly revenue for Airbnb listings by leveraging feature engineering, TF-IDF text processing, and hyperparameter tuning, achieving 1st place in the private kaggle competition.
    Source
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