Shubhanshu Singh
Platform Engineer & Architect
Bangalore
Summary
Platform Architect with leadership experience of more than a decade in software technology. I see coding as a medium to be creative, love explore latest tech stacks which gives me a kick to learn more and come up with innovative ideas. Driven by my curiosity and thirst to learn new things. Have built platforms/products from scratch and scaled it to millions of user. Expertise range from building mobile apps to data engineering, analytics & gen AI.
Overview
4
4
years of post-secondary education
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Software Engineer
Lowe's
Bangalore, India
01.2023 - Current
- Supervising, directing and leading 100s engineers across 8 products.
- Leading architecture/design of in-house API gateway, Internal Developer Portal (for improving DevX across various touchpoints like software/api cataloging, CI/CD, Security & Vulnerability scans, Observability), A/B testing platform, Chaos Engineering tool, Feedback Management service, Session replay/analytics, Headless commerce platform, Workflow Orchestration tool, Frontend framework and design system which eventually replaced vendor products to save Lowe's millions of dollars.
- Built in house RAG based enterprise grade semantic search and conversational tool.
- Built AI agents for developer workflows integrated with dev tools.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Built outstanding and dynamic team of software engineers and developers which significantly boosted overall success of organization.
- Tuned systems to boost performance.
- Collaborated on hiring, retention and promotion of junior engineers.
- Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.
- Performed continuous reviews of projects and team work in order to enact proactive changes that maintained efficiency.
- Collaborated with team to determine application requirement specifications.
- Aided in system engineering duties, providing input on hardware and networking design architecture.
Lead Software Engineer
Lowe's
Bangalore , Karnataka
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Built A/B Testing Experimentation platform from scratch helping product owners, developers & marketing associates at Lowe's US.
- Lead team of 8 engineers.
- Created data pipeline for product analytics leveraging Kafka, Spark with Druid and visualizing it in Superset and Kibana.
- Designed and created engineering specifications for software applications and programs.
- Delivered technical guidance and consultation with application teams, clients and engineers for technology domain environments.
- Created new and improved existing algorithms based on customer requirements or other input.
- Helped manage application's technology platform status, project pipeline and development priorities.
- Created data models and developed descriptive metadata schemas to meet functional and technical requirements.
- Worked collaboratively with all stakeholders to resolve technical roadblocks.
- Communicated project plans, tracking details, status updates and risk mitigation plans to cross-functional team.
- Wrote, maintained and managed test documentation, manuals and architecture design pattern.
- Designed, coded, tested, debugged and documented programs using agile development practices.
- Improved DevOps, including deployment and testing strategies and application monitoring.
- Translated application storyboards, prototypes and requirements documents into functional applications.
- Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments, including testing features and correcting code.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
Founder in Residence
Entrepreneur First
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2020 - 12.2020
- Entrepreneur First is an international Talent Investor, which supports individuals to build technology companies.
- I started up with an idea in Agritech and eventually didn't work out as I digged deeper into this sector, the market size wasn't that promising for the kind of solution I wanted to offer.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
CTO
Halaplay
Bangalore, Karnataka
10.2017 - 06.2020
- From building cross-platform mobile app in React Native to scaling platform to millions of users, I managed lean team of 7, with daily transaction of $150K on platform. With over 9m registered user base and MAU of 4m, I have lead Halaplay to successful exit within timespan of 3 years from seed to series A to getting acquired.
- Interpreted multifaceted technological issues into defined frameworks and highly scripted action plans.
- Demonstrated ability to simultaneously embrace macro-level strategic decisions and micro-level implementation.
- Developed and implemented long-term strategic technological blueprint.
- Managed company-level architecture, platform and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.
- Maintained high-level knowledge of current and emerging technology development and applications.
- Collaborated with cross-functional intra-company teams to provide mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Maintained thorough understanding of all key and current technologies, platforms and trends.
- Designed enterprise-level technological blueprints and system architectures.
- Company got acquired & I took exit along with co-founders.
- I have worked on are NodeJS [ExpressJS], ReactJS, React Native,Angular JS, Elasticsearch [ELK], MongoDB, MariaDB, Redis,SpotInst ,AWS Kinesis, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda,AWS S3,AWS Cloudfront & other AWS services
Tech Lead
MoEngage
Bangalore, Karnataka
12.2014 - 09.2017
- Leading a team of 3 for In-App Nativ, which deliver personalized native in-app experiences within minutes, allowing marketer to engage users without writing single line of code.
- Also built Unity & Windows SDK plus experienced in building scalable micro-services solutions using industry standard (python/javascript based) web frameworks like Pyramid,Django etc, and ExpressJS (NodeJS).Thorough knowledge of Docker based Microservice Architecture and implementation.
- During my journey at MoEngage, I have built a product offering (Flows) with just one frontend developer (considering time constraint & resources bandwidth at an early stage startup), which created another revenue stream for the company.
- I have worked on a massively scalable solution which handles a million concurrent hits and nearly profiled around 30M - 35M users as far as DAU is concerned.
- Supervised end-user support efforts, designing policies to establish consistent service guidelines and reliable ticket resolution.
- Assessed new engineering designs to verify technical feasibility and compliance.
- Developed corrective action plans and prevention strategies to improve product reliability.
- Collaborated with engineers in new product introduction phases to develop and verify design changes.
- Validated adherence to best practices, quality standards and customer specifications.
Software Engineer
Junglee Games
Delhi, Delhi
09.2014 - 11.2014
- Maintained game server written in C# & WCF for JungleeRummy
- Installed and configured software applications and tested solutions for functionality.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Supported software integration and implemented maintenance enhancements.
- Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
Education
B.E. (Hons) - Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Pilani, Rajasthan 09.2010 - 09.2014
Skills
AWS / GCP
MongoDB
NodeJS
Javascript
Python
Apache Kafka / Samza
Apache Spark
MQTT
React Native
React JS
Flutter/Dart
C#
SQL
Elasticsearch [ELK]
Redis
Angular JS
AWS Kinesis
Serverless Framework
Java
Kubernetes
Spinnaker
Jenkins
Couchbase
Scala
Flink
Flutter
Kubernetes
RAG / Gen AI / LLMs
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer
Lowe's
01.2023 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Lowe's
01.2021 - 01.2023
Founder in Residence
Entrepreneur First
08.2020 - 12.2020
CTO
Halaplay
10.2017 - 06.2020
Tech Lead
MoEngage
12.2014 - 09.2017
Software Engineer
Junglee Games
09.2014 - 11.2014
B.E. (Hons) - Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
09.2010 - 09.2014