Shivanju Awasthi

Software Engineer

India7 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led backend development for multiple high-impact fintech applications.
  • Co-authored a patent and research papers at VMware.
  • Successfully founded and scaled multiple start-ups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Cloud Computing expert with strong backend development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-up VenturesBackend DevelopmentCloud Computing

Other Skills

Data StructuresNatural Language ProcessingCyber-securityAlgorithmsGenetic AlgorithmsMachine LearningNetworkingArtificial Neural NetworksPythonCJavaC++Idempotent WorkflowsEvent-Driven ArchitectureUser Migration

Experience

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2026Present · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Simpl

Staff Engineer

Apr 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Led the Simpl’s mobile app backend team, driving feature development and engineering improvements.
  • Paylist: Utility bill payments via UPI Autopay: Drove 0 to 1 design & backend development. Designed mandate lifecycle, category abstractions (Electricity/DTH/Fastag/etc.), idempotent bill‑fetch/pay workflows, retriable state machines, and failure‑safe reconciliation. Worked with PM to align risk controls and reduce user friction.
  • Simpl SELECT: Delivered the backend for a premium membership program with tiered plans, serving over 500K MAU. Architected event‑driven benefits activation and plan management with decoupled domain services and idempotent replays for correctness.
  • Dynamic billing cycle migration: Led migration of 1.5M+ users from fixed to dynamic cycle start with guard‑railed rollouts, and automated backfills.
  • Billbox to BillboxV2: Re‑platformed Billbox (utility bill payment solution) from BillAvenue to Setu for stability and performance improvements leading to a more maintainable codebase.
Start-up VenturesData StructuresNatural Language ProcessingCyber-securityAlgorithmsGenetic Algorithms+8

Unnati - gst filing app

Tech Co-Founder

Apr 2023Feb 2024 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Unnati is India's inaugural GST Filing App for 15 million GST registered businesses, including e-commerce sellers, freelancers, and local mom-and-pop stores. We are trying to transform the landscape of GST filing in India, alleviating apprehension and streamlining the process.
  • Built the end to end backend system for the Android app, oversaw its development with a team of 2 interns and achieved over 30,000 installs.
  • Created a custom login page for GST portal within the app, leveraging undocumented GST portal APIs to retrieve user GST details securely, including captcha verification, all executed locally on the user's device for confidentiality.
  • Built a subdomain based website creation system for the app users, aiding them in establishing their online presence.
  • Developed an efficient sales data upload system leveraging Nodejs streams resulting in high concurrency with minimal memory usage.
  • Developed a CRM system using a combination of Google Sheets and AppScript for internal customer support team.
Start-up Ventures

Astu credit

Tech Co-Founder

Nov 2019Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Helping people improve their Credit score by converting their existing expenses into credit payments.
  • Developed the backend infra ground up for the Android app, surpassing 50,000 installations.
  • Built a gamified system within the application, blending bill payments, referrals, and an interactive spinner to empower users to accumulate points.
  • Created a live leaderboard to foster competition and increase user engagement.
Start-up Ventures

Vmware

2 roles

Member Of Technical Staff 2

Sep 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I was part of the CloudHealth team, where I built the inventory transformer for vCenter data, which was a crucial step in private cloud cost estimation. Later, I was responsible for building the module for multi-cloud budget comparisons.
  • Apart from my regular activities at work, I've co-authored a patent (approved in USPTO) and two RADIO (VMware internal conference) research papers. The conference was held in San Francisco between 11-16 May 2019. I was also the part of four members team which won the VMware BORATHON for year 2019.

Member Of Technical Staff

Jul 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I worked for Cost Insight(multicloud cost management solution) team, where I was responsible for augmenting the existing cost calculator to use the new persistence layer. I also helped in building the ETL pipeline for processing gigabytes of cloud bills for cost calculation.

Mykaarma

Intern(S/W Developer)

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Integrated Dual Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2017

Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Sanatan Dharma Vidyalaya, Kanpur

6th to 12th — Science

Jan 2004Jan 2011

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