Shivansh Chandnani

Director of Engineering

Sunnyvale, California, United States9 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led backend team for WhatsApp Payments with 50M+ transactions.
Developed no-code payment solutions for businesses.
Created optimized cryptography library for data security.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Backend Engineer with strong leadership in payment solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software InfrastructureTechnical Staff ManagementData Security

Other Skills

Backend DevelopmentAPIsCryptographyAPI DevelopmentLow Latency SystemsJavaPythonData StructuresFile HandlingHTMLCSSDebateLeadershipMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Excel

About

I graduated from University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign in May 2019 with a B.S and MCS in Computer Science. Having interned at Jump Trading and Facebook previously, I am back at Facebook now for a full time role working on the backend for WhatsApp Payments in India

Experience

9 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2018 – May 2019 · 9 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

Created new course content for the undergraduate computer architecture course
Taught 120 students over the course of 2 semesters
Lead discussion sessions, course labs and held office hours
Worked with the autograder, plagiarism detector and online learning platform

Jump trading llc

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Champaign, Illinois · On-site

Interned at the crypto subsidiary of High frequency trading firm, Jump Trading
Created exchange connection handlers to ensure low latency placement of trade orders from
traders/algorithms
Implemented APIs for 4 different top crypto exchanges at the time within 6 weeks
Worked on the core market data team to update the handling of new data types
Collaborated across a team of 17 interns in various offices to create the CI pipeline and release
schedules

Textura corporation

Software Engineering Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

Interned at Textura (now a subsidiary of Oracle) as a rising Sophomore
Worked on the core construction payments CRM solution and migrated it to modern libraries
Created a web app to reduce redundant client services queries by over 60%
Created a hipchat integrated CI bot to keep track of internal builds and alert in case of broken trunk

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

Course Assistant

Jan 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

Course Assistant for Intro to Computer Science(CS 125) and Computer Architecture(CS 233)
Responsible for auto-grading assignments
Leading student Discussion sections
Hold office hours weekly to clarify students' doubts