Authors
Meet the engineers and architects writing for the Total Shift Left blog — API test automation, shift-left strategy, AI-native testing, and CI/CD integration.
Rishi Gaurav
Founder, Total Shift Left
15+ years architecting API test automation, CI/CD platforms, and self-hosted AI testing infrastructure
Rishi is the founder of Total Shift Left, with deep expertise in building both technology products and technology services businesses. He has worked with customers including Microsoft and PayPal, and previously scaled Leapwork's India operation from 0 to 250 people across product, sales, and support. He has spent more than a decade designing API test automation and CI/CD platforms for regulated enterprises in BFSI, healthcare, and the public sector — work that informs his writing on self-hosted LLMs, contract testing at scale, and shift-left strategy. He is a frequent author on AI API testing, OpenAPI-driven automation, and on-prem deployment of testing platforms.
82 articles
Parveen Kumari
Senior API Automation Expert
10+ years specialising in API test automation, schema-aware test design, and CI/CD integration
Parveen is a senior API automation expert at Total Shift Left. She designs schema-aware test generation strategies, contract-testing workflows, and CI/CD integrations for enterprise QA teams. She writes about practical, day-to-day API testing topics — coverage gaps, regression patterns, test data management, and how to operationalise AI-generated tests inside a real engineering pipeline.
34 articles
Sushant Joshi
Software Engineer
Expert in automation and manual testing of frontend and backend applications, Total Shift Left platform specialist
Sushant is a Software Engineer at Total Shift Left with hands-on experience in both automation and manual testing of frontend and backend applications. He is a Total Shift Left platform expert who builds API automation solutions for customers across industries. His day-to-day work — designing test workflows, debugging integration failures, and scaling automation suites — directly informs his writing on practical testing strategy, test data management, and CI/CD quality gates.
32 articles
Smeet Gohel
Software Engineer
Expert in developing scalable software, web technologies (Flutter, Node.js), and API integration architecture
Smeet is a Software Engineer at Total Shift Left specialising in building scalable software systems with Flutter and Node.js. He has deep hands-on experience implementing API integrations that enable efficient data retrieval and utilisation within enterprise applications. At Total Shift Left, Smeet helps customers implement scalable API automation — from initial integration design through production-grade test pipelines — and writes about the practical engineering patterns that make API automation work at scale.
26 articles