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Hey there! My name's Shashank Saxena (or more commonly known as Shank) and I currently work at MongoDB as a software engineer.
I'm usually hanging out with my friends over some bubble tea or ping pong and I really, really like sushi. Otherwise, I read a lot of online articles regarding changes in technology and I try to stay up to date with the latest tech news.
I have experience with a couple of different areas in computer engineering. However, my favorite topic is distributed systems and cloud computing. I think distributed systems is a very interesting field that incorporates a lot of other areas of focus (OS, networking, algorithms, data science, etc). It's certainly going to be on the rise in the next few years with the vast amount of data that is being produced daily!
These are some of the places where I'm active:
I love what the creator of this site and what the creator of this site did. I've always been a fan of minimalism and I figured I should try and showcase that on my personal website!