Shekhar Singh

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in architecting large-scale distributed systems.
Strong advocate for microservices and event sourcing.
Proven track record in mentoring and leading engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Data Engineering expert in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

Contact

csingh@rippling.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringDistributed SystemsBackend Engineering

Other Skills

AWSAWS LambdaAirflowAmazon DynamodbAmazon RedshiftAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAuroraBig DataBigqueryCassandraDatabases

About

I'm a polyglot software engineer with experience in solving business problems with Tech & Data. I love architecting & building services as part of a large-scale distributed system. I've worked on building the core APIs to big data pipelines to machine learning models from scratch with a focus on writing clean code, tests, and continuous delivery while ensuring everything is fully automated and monitored. The idea of how multiple systems run independently but yet integrated together to bring out certain output amazes me, and that also makes me a huge advocate of microservices, event sourcing, and big data. I love teams, as well as mentoring and leading them. I also work closely with business, product managers, and stakeholders and try to solve the problems with a tech solution or convert to a data problem accordingly.

Experience

Rippling

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

building and scaling rippling 1 to 100

Raystack foundation

Core Contributor

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Gojek

Senior Engineer

Mar 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We're a startup within Gojek that builds self-serve, multi-tenant, cost-efficient products that powers the entire data lifecycle at Gojek and all its subsidiaries. Scale, automation, and quality are implicit.
Tech Stack: Go, Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, Airflow, Bigquery, Postgresql, TIG Stack, Terraform, Protobuf, GRPC, Kapacitor, Google Cloud.
Check out our several open-source projects at github.com/gojek, github.com/odpf.

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Sole proprietorship

Technology Consultant / Advisor

Mar 2017 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Consulted several startups at the ideation stage to mid-sized startups and a few enterprise companies.
Primarily built end-to-end system architectures, backend systems, data and machine learning platforms. Also helped with hiring.
Managed projects as an IC as well as led various teams over time with sizes 2-6.
Clientele: 16+ companies in different countries like India, US, UK, Norway, Dubai and Germany.

Simpl

Technical Lead (Founding Team)

Oct 2015 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Mumbai

As part of the founding team, I led multiple teams and projects over the years to solve business problems using Tech and Data, while ensuring the engineering best practices, testing, delivery and finally measuring the impact in production.
Built low latency, high throughput data-intensive services
Architected and built the end-to-end Data Stack (Data Engineering, DevOps)
Realtime Fraud prevention and mitigation
Credit Underwriting and Decision systems
Fundraising's due-diligence analysis efforts
Compliance, Cost optimization and Hiring.
Keywords: Python, Scala, Ruby, NodeJS, Redshift, Aurora, Postgresql, Cassandra, Apache Spark, Airflow, Ansible, AWS

PythonScalaRubyNodeJSRedshiftAurora+8

Dell emc

Software Engineer

Jan 2015 – Oct 2015 · 9 mos · Bangalore

Worked on the product EMC Data Domain (disk backup, archiving, and disaster recovery with high-speed, inline deduplication storage system) Primarily, worked on the features: Replication, HA, File Verification. Achievements: Successfully filed a Patent in US PTO, Silver Awardee

C-dac (center for development of advance computing)

Research Intern

Dec 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

Individual Research Project: "Accelerating Map-Reduce using Distributed Cache as Middleware with Partial Pre-shuffling and Securing Memcached server".

Webarch

Lead Full Stack Developer

Apr 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Srm search engine

VP Engineering (Founding Team)

Sep 2012 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Funded by National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), It aimed to create an India-centric search engine with clustered results, an advanced knowledge base, and a unique UI.