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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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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
Shubhanshu SinghPlatform Engineer & Architect