Shalini O.

Engineering Manager

United States16 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built a high-impact backend infrastructure team from scratch.
Achieved 99.99% uptime for crypto payments infrastructure.
Led successful launch of crypto futures product under tight deadlines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Infrastructure Leader with expertise in scalable developer platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer PlatformsInfrastructure StrategyCrypto Payments InfrastructurePaymentsFull-stack DevelopmentDistributed SystemsBig Data InfrastructureCi/cdFile SystemsDistributed Storage

Other Skills

API Design and GovernanceAWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon EC2Amazon KinesisAmazon RDSAmazon S3Amazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaC++Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cross-functional Stakeholder ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipDeveloper Experience

About

I’m an engineering leader with a strong foundation in backend infrastructure and developer platforms, currently managing high-impact full-stack teams within the Developer Experience organization at Coinbase. Over the last few years, I’ve built a 0→1 infrastructure team that now spans multiple pods. My teams are responsible for foundational platforms used by hundreds of engineers, including our Internal Developer Platform (IDP), service frameworks, and backend libraries that power scalable development across the entire company. Before transitioning into engineering management, I served as a Staff Engineer and Tech Lead across Coinbase’s Payments, Commerce, and Retail Advanced Trading teams; leading multi-quarter initiatives like re-architecting our crypto payments rail (achieving 99.99% uptime), launching the crypto futures product, and integrating JPMorgan ACH rails for Coinbase Retail and Institutional applications. I care deeply about organizational design, platform strategy, and developer efficiency at scale and thrive at the intersection of technical depth, execution rigor, and people leadership.

Experience

Coinbase

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

I lead Developer Experience Platform within the Infrastructure organization at Coinbase, focused on building scalable internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling that power engineering productivity across the company.
Key Contributions:
Org Design & People Leadership
Built a backend infrastructure team from 0 → multi-pod org within 12 months
Hired, mentored, and promoted Tech Leads, Tech Lead Managers, and Engineering Managers
Drove org-wide performance reviews, staffing strategy, and execution processes
Platform Ownership
Lead strategy and execution for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) – Coinbase’s catalog and governance layer for internal APIs and services
Own the Server Foundations charter – including the Coinbase Service Framework (CSF), shared Go libraries, and internal cache abstraction (cache-router)
Strategic Execution & Impact
Designed and led a high-intensity “war-room” execution model that rescued an at-risk, CEO-visible project and delivered an MVP within 2 weeks
Re-architected CSF into a modular framework supporting service composition and opinionated defaults
Delivered new capabilities to support service creation, reliability, and cross-org governance at scale

Developer ExperienceCross-functional Team LeadershipCross-functional Stakeholder ManagementInfrastructure StrategyDeveloper Platforms

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos

Coinbase Commerce: Re-architected crypto payments rail to improve reliability (99.99% uptime) and scale to 100K+ payments/day
Retail Advanced Trading: Tech Lead for crypto futures launch under tight timelines with cross-functional coordination
Payments Infrastructure: Integrated JPMorgan ACH rails; streamlined fiat infra for scale and compliance

PaymentsTrading SystemsGo (Programming Language)API Design and GovernanceCrypto Payments Infrastructure

Granular

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California

Built a global self-serve payments platform and data-driven tools for farmers using geospatial analytics. Owned end-to-end development across Python, React, and AWS. Gained foundational experience in distributed systems, APIs, and platform thinking—skills I deepened and scaled in my engineering leadership roles at Coinbase.

Full-Stack DevelopmentDistributed SystemsPayments InfrastructureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Geospatial Data Processing

Bluedata, inc. (acquired by hpe)

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

Built infrastructure-as-a-service software to enable fast, self-service provisioning of Big Data stacks (HBase, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Cloudera, etc.) for enterprise customers. Delivered robust platforms to support high-scale analytics, data mining, and ETL pipelines in minutes.
Designed and developed backend systems using Erlang and Python to deploy and manage large-scale data infrastructure
Led engineering efforts to streamline CI pipelines, improving release velocity and reliability
Integrated compute and storage orchestration with real-time analytics engines for customers in finance, retail, and healthcare

Big Data InfrastructurePythonErlangApache KafkaContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)CI/CD

Dell emc

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2014 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Led core filesystem and storage architecture development for enterprise-grade backup and replication systems, achieving data throughput of up to 68 TB/hour. Owned design and delivery of high-impact features in the Virtual Filesystem (VFS) and File Manager (FM) layers.
Designed and prototyped DDFS Scale-out architecture, enabling distributed file system communication across nodes
Delivered new features for capacity quotas, replication QoS, session management, and namespace consistency
Partnered across teams to resolve critical customer issues and improve overall storage platform reliability

File SystemsDistributed StorageC++Systems ProgrammingReplication and Backup