Vishal ShuklaSoftware Engineer
Email
vishaaxl​@gmail.com
Phone
+91 8318218163
Location
Lucknow,India
GitHub
https://github.com/vishaaxl
https://vishalshukla.in
Profile Summary

Backend Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing and building scalable, high-performance distributed systems. Strong foundation in system design, networking fundamentals, and DevOps practices, with hands-on experience deploying and maintaining production-grade infrastructure.

Technical Skills

Backend & Systems Engineering

  • •Go, Python, TypeScript
  • •System Design, Distributed Systems, High Availability, Design Patterns

    • Cloud & DevOps

  • •AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudWatch, s3, EFS, Kineses)
  • •Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Terragrunt, CI/​CD
  • •Linux, Layer 7 Networking, Production Observability

    • Databases

  • •PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB

    • Professional Experience

    HCLTech

    Technical Lead, Deployed onsite at Cisco
    Jun 2025 – Present | Banglore, India
  • •Built and maintained backend services for the Zero Trust Network Access(ZTNA) platform in a distributed, security-sensitive environment with strict uptime requirements.

  • •Implemented cross-region service replication and failover strategies to ensure continuity during regional outages. Improved CI/​CD pipelines and automated infrastructure provisioning to support reliable multi-region deployments and reduce release-related issues.

  • •Owned production workflows across regions, including service deployments, log analysis, monitoring, incident debugging, and performance tuning under live traffic.
    • Virtue Analytics
    Full-stack Engineer
    Nov 2023 – Jun 2025 | Lucknow, India
  • •Led development for an EdTech platform enabling students to evaluate colleges based on interests, academic background, and financial constraints. Implemented comparison tools, profile editing workflows, document uploads, and structured data extraction from submitted files.

  • •Developed a document processing system that converts text from images into structured data. Automated data extraction and organized the output into tables for easier comparison and review.
    • Front-end Engineer
    May 2023 – Nov 2023 | Lucknow, India
  • •Developed a healthcare application for a US-based client, ensuring compliance with HIPAA data privacy and security requirements. Implemented encryption, role-based access control, and secure data handling practices to protect sensitive patient information.
    • Education

    Master of Computer Applications

    Chandigarh University

    Specialization in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

    Bachelor of Business Administration

    BBAU
    Lucknow, India