Shashi Shekhar
Bangalore
Summary
Software engineering professional with expertise in developing scalable applications and leading teams. Strong background in system architecture and project management. Committed to enhancing software performance and delivering high-quality solutions.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
PAYPAL
Bangalore, IN
11.2024 - Current
- Designed and developed a merchant Accounts Payable platform for efficient vendor payment management across multiple payment methods..
- Drove the architecture and delivery of cross-border payment capabilities, enabling merchants to efficiently process international vendor payments across multiple regions.
- Designed and implemented open-loop payment infrastructure, enabling merchants to process payments across external payment networks and expanding platform payment flexibility.
- Led the development of an AI-powered invoice ingestion pipeline using Cosmos.AI, creating a unified interface to integrate with multiple LLM providers and automate invoice processing workflows.
- Spearheaded the redesign of the ACH payment processing pipeline, reducing bank-to-check settlement time from 10 days to 7 days (30% improvement) and improving merchant payment turnaround.
- Collaborated with product, risk, and platform engineering teams to define scalable payment workflows and ensure reliability, compliance, and operational efficiency.
- Led R&D efforts by engineering teams to determine opportunities for new projects or products.
Lead Engineer
ZOPSMART
Bangalore, IN
09.2021 - 11.2024
- Successfully scaled the system to accommodate a tenfold increase in user base.
- Optimized data distribution algorithms resulting in a 50 percent reduction in latency across the distributed network.
- Developed and implemented new features that added huge value to the business.
- Led the development and implementation of distributed systems architecture for a high-traffic web application, improving scalability by 300 percent.
Software Developer
SAP LABS
Bangalore, IN
04.2019 - 09.2021
- Enhanced web application performance through the strategic design and successful implementation of an event-driven architecture, leading to optimized system responsiveness and streamlined data flow.
- Languages and Frameworks used: Java, Spring Boot, Odata, MongoDb, TypeScript, SAP UI5
Software Engineer
SUN TECHNOLOGIES
Bangalore, IN
03.2018 - 04.2019
- Integrated OAuth2 into the project to enhance authentication functionality
- Followed the complete process for code delivery like raising request for code review, deployment, unit testing, smoke testing.
- Languages and Frameworks used: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, TypeScript
Member of Technical Staff
NEC TECHNOLOGIES INDIA
Bangalore, IN
07.2015 - 03.2018
- Design and development of Web Application.
- Build and deployed web application using Jboss server.
- Languages and Frameworks used: Java, Spring Mvc, Hibernate, JavaScript, Jquery
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BangaloreSkills
- Spring Boot
- Payment systems integration
- Team leadership
- API design principles
- Kafka
- AMQ
- Continuous delivery practices
- Microsoft SQL Server
- CosmosDB
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Distributed systems
- Agile development
- Technical documentation
- Code reviews
- NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis)
- Domain-Driven Design
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Git
- JUnit
- Functional Test
- Mockito
- Postman
- NGINX
- Docker
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- High-Level System Design
- Datadog
- Terraform
- Agile methodologies
- Performance optimization
- Grafana
- Kibana
- Datadog
- Azure Functions
- Low-Level System Design
- Harness
- GitHub Actions
- System architecture
- Payment processing
- API integration
- Cross-functional collaboration
- API development
Accomplishments
- 2024, Recognition for high performance team
- 2021, Employee of the quarter award.
- 2014, Secured 99 percentile in GATE.
Custom Section
IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Azure Notebooks
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashi-shekhar-2529ba54/
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
PAYPAL
11.2024 - Current
Lead Engineer
ZOPSMART
09.2021 - 11.2024
Software Developer
SAP LABS
04.2019 - 09.2021
Software Engineer
SUN TECHNOLOGIES
03.2018 - 04.2019
Member of Technical Staff
NEC TECHNOLOGIES INDIA
07.2015 - 03.2018
B.Tech - Computer Science
M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY