👋 Kushal Shukla | Golang Backend Engineer | Actively Seeking New Roles

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Hi everyone :waving_hand:,

I’m Kushal Shukla, a passionate software engineer focusing on Go backend development, DevOps, and cloud-native systems. I love building scalable, reproducible backend infrastructures and contributing to open-source projects that push the limits of performance and reliability.

:laptop: My Background

Latest role: Golang Backend Developer at Swif.AI (YC-backed startup)

  • Integrated Wazuh with Elasticsearch to fetch and display real-time vulnerability and alert data.
  • Built multiple policy management APIs and agent-side Golang code to automate endpoint security configurations.
  • Worked with Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to ensure CI/CD reliability and system consistency.

Previous:

  • LFX Mentorship (CNCF / Prometheus): Contributed to Prometheus’ test infrastructure and benchmarking suite, optimizing query logic, automation, and data handling for large-scale performance testing.
  • Strategic Future AI: Built a full-stack Kanban board system with React, Node.js, and Kubernetes featuring Stripe integration, real-time updates, and JWT-based authentication.

:gear: Tech Stack

Languages: Go, C++, Bash
DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS
Backend: REST APIs, gRPC, Fiber, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Focus Areas: Distributed systems, observability, CI/CD automation, backend reliability

:rocket: Open Source Contributions

During my CNCF mentorship, I contributed several PRs to the Prometheus ecosystem that improved benchmarking automation and CI/CD workflows:

  1. Create a CLI for uploading and downloading blocks by kushalShukla-web · Pull Request #760 · prometheus/test-infra · GitHub
  2. Promtool Update: JUnit-Format XML Test Result Support by kushalShukla-web · Pull Request #14506 · prometheus/prometheus · GitHub
  3. Integrating block-sync in an init-container by kushalShukla-web · Pull Request #779 · prometheus/test-infra · GitHub
  4. Enhance Load Generator to Query Pre-Generated Data Blocks by kushalShukla-web · Pull Request #782 · prometheus/test-infra · GitHub
  5. Add remote-write to Prombench by kushalShukla-web · Pull Request #787 · prometheus/test-infra · GitHub
  6. Add additional PromQL operators to synthetic load by kushalShukla-web · Pull Request #747 · prometheus/test-infra · GitHub

These contributions focused on performance benchmarking, data transfer tooling, and test infrastructure improvements using Go, Docker, and Kubernetes.

:globe_showing_europe_africa: Availability

I’m open to remote opportunities and collaborations in areas like backend systems, observability tooling, or cloud-native Go projects.

:open_mailbox_with_raised_flag: Contact

:e_mail: Email: kushalshukla110@gmail.com
:link: GitHub: kushalshukla · GitHub
:link: LinkedIn: Kushal Shukla - Aviva Canada | LinkedIn

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Yeah - they MIGHT have gotten some help from ChatGPT.

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LMAO , you guys really got me there

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You could try looking at Unikraft:

They posted here a while ago with a job opportunity. Also I don’t know how legit it is but you could try this site somebody posted here as well:

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Hey! Thanks for posting about Unikraft — looks like a nice place to work. Do you happen to know anyone there who could refer me?