TANVI JAIN — CTO
Hi, I’m a software engineer at D. E. Shaw, building production systems where performance, reliability, and correctness directly impact business outcomes in terms of hiring exceptional candidates. Representative impact: • Revamped a legacy workflow platform, reducing load time from ~12 minutes to under 3 seconds through caching, query optimization, and asynchronous processing • Optimized an ETL pipeline syncing data from iCIMS to internal systems by implementing Redis-based caching and incremental processing, reducing redundant database operations by ~99.8% and significantly lowering sync latency • Sub-led a roadmap initiative to modernize the internal employee review platform, owning key workflow components across backend and frontend, driving performance improvements to achieve P95 response times under 2 seconds. I’m currently working on applied AI systems focused on summarization and structured information extraction. Previously, I served as CTO at Horizonbeam, where I led technology strategy and multi-project engineering delivery for clients including Walmart, 7-Eleven, LoginRadius, and Exabeam. I oversaw 12+ concurrent web and mobile initiatives supporting 1M+ cumulative users, increased delivery capacity by ~45% within two quarters through structured sprint governance and DevOps automation, and architected AWS-based cloud infrastructure that reduced production incidents by ~40% while enabling multi-region deployments. Interested in performance-sensitive systems, platform and infrastructure work, and engineering decisions that scale cleanly over time.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with expertise in performance-sensitive systems.
Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Experience: 2 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Full-stack Development
- Product Optimization
Career Highlights
- Revamped legacy platform, reducing load time significantly.
- Scaled engineering operations by 40% through governance.
- Architected AWS infrastructure, reducing production incidents.
Work Experience
The D. E. Shaw Group
Member, Technical (10 mos)
Software developer Intern (5 mos)
Horizon Beam
Chief Technology Officer (5 mos)
D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Software developer intern (2 mos)
Sphinx, MNIT Jaipur
Vice President (7 mos)
Placement & Training Cell, MNIT Jaipur
Student Placement Co-ordinator (1 yr)
GirlScript Summer of Code
Open Source Developer (3 mos)
Sphinx, MNIT Jaipur
Technical Team Member (1 mo)
flotail
web developer Intern (2 mos)
CEL, MNIT JAIPUR
Senior Executive (5 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
at Rukmani Birla Modern High School