Shantanu Kumar

About | Open Source Clojure

Experienced software artisan living in Bengaluru, India. I love what I do. I have worked in various domains and software technologies. In the recent years I have been interested in distributed systems, databases, scalability and performance. Effectiveness of ideas depends on the context, so I tend to judiciously combine good ideas irrespective of which paradigms they identify with.

I have created many Open Source projects using Clojure and Java. I help organize the Bangalore-Clojure meetup group.

Books

• Clojure High Performance Programming, Second Edition, Packt Publishing, September 2015
• Clojure High Performance Programming, First Edition, Packt Publishing, November 2013

Talks

• Bract: A Minimal DRY Application Framework, IN/Clojure 2019, Bangalore Slides
• Functional Composition with Dependency Injection, IN/Clojure 2016, Pune Slides
• Performance optimization with Code as data, FunctionalConf 2016, Bengaluru Slides
• The Design of Clojure, FossMeet 2016, Calicut Slides
• Production Clojure: An Experience Report, FunctionalConf 2015, Bengaluru Slides
• Various talks at Bengaluru-Clojure meetups

Blogs

• CharSequence
• Medium

Contact

• Github
• Linkedin
• Twitter: @kumarshantanu
• Email
• Clojurian Slack: @kumarshantanu
• SpeakerDeck

Employment

• Software industry (Built Enterprise/Distributed systems. since August 2006)
• Indian Air Force (Built information management systems, December 1994 to July 2006)