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
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