Shivam Jha
Senior Software Engineer at Headout
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShivam Jha is a software engineer based in Bengaluru with six years of experience building backend systems, test automation, and developer tooling. He has shipped production services at startups and product companies — notably contributing backend and test-generation features to the popular open-source keploy project, including Node.js support and host-header handling improvements. Comfortable across Golang, Node.js, gRPC and search/data systems, Shivam has delivered ranking, caching, and API frameworks at companies like Zomato, Trell and INDmoney. He enjoys “breaking and experimenting” with tech, which shows in his focus on testability and resilient architectures (circuit breakers, in-memory caches) and in a MLH Fellowship project that produced a developer productivity VS Code extension. Known for pragmatic refactors and readable code, he blends fast iteration with maintainability to help teams move quickly without accruing technical debt.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
apim10
api-design10
go10
api10
golang10
api-testing10
test-automation10
dockers9
docker9
nodejs8
html6
crud6
heroku6
amazon-dynamodb6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
keploy/keploy
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 releases, 246 reviews, 232 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Shivam contributed to the `keploy/keploy` repository, which focuses on API and integration testing. They implemented features related to host header handling, particularly in the context of API testing and test generation. The user refactored the codebase, updating function and variable names to improve readability and maintainability. Their work also included adding support for Node.js, enhancing the testing capabilities of the project, and modifying test execution for better results.
e2e-testingtestingtest-automationapi-testingtesting-tools
shivamsouravjha/Meme_Yogi
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
postman collection :- https://www.getpostman.com/collections/3ece9f4151c5b940be7f
Contributions:2 reviews, 93 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
postman-collectionmongodbnode-jsnodeexpressjs
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