Shankar Jha
Principal Data Engineer
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShankar Jha is a Principal Data Engineer based in Bengaluru with eight years of experience building data and backend systems, leading teams, and driving product growth in Agile environments. He combines hands-on Python and Django expertise with practical ML experience, having implemented deep learning models and supported secure/private AI learning initiatives. As an open-source contributor and technical writer, he has influenced Python/Django communities, reviewed courses, and served as a technical editor for Packt, with work featured on podcasts and popular tech outlets. He has a track record of automating workflows, improving code quality, and boosting business metrics—once helping a site reach top Google results and increase revenue by 30%. Beyond engineering, he mentors large cohorts of learners, collaborates with academics from IIT and Stanford on community projects, and curates an "Awesome-Climate-Change-AI" repo that reflects his interest in socially impactful AI. Quick learner and polymath by practice, he blends developer craftsmanship with teaching and community-building.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at ASANSOL ENGINEERING COLLEGEFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampHigh School, High School at D.A.V KOYLA NAGAR
English, Hindi, Maithili
Github Skills (14)
qr-code10
animated-gif9
aadhaar9
gif8
python6
javascript4
sdk4
tesseract2
text-summarization2
ocr1
pytorch1
sequence-to-sequence1
web-development1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
surepassio/aadhaar-esign-web-sdk
May 2020 - Jun 2020
eSign the documents easily with SurePass Aadhaar eSign Web SDK.
Contributions:38 commits, 34 pushes, 13 tags in 19 days
esignweb-sdkjavascriptsdkaadhaar
shanku007/ArchiveJournalDownloader
May 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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