Shivani Maheshwari

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in software engineering management.
Led product design and strategy at Postman and Rippling.
Expert in building scalable and reliable software solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a focus on scalable architecture and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentTeam ManagementScalable Architecture

Other Skills

Performance ManagementGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipDistributed SystemsStrategic PlanningRoadmap planningDjangoMongoDBJavaVideo TranscodingApache KafkaProcess EfficiencyMySQLMessage QueueTeam LeadershipAgile Methodologies

About

As a software engineering manager with over a decade of experience, I excel at designing and building scalable, reliable, and user-friendly products and platforms. I am passionate about solving complex problems, creating value for customers, and collaborating with diverse and talented teams. Prior to joining Google, I was an engineering manager at Postman, the leading platform for API development and testing, where I led the design and strategy for several products, such as Integrations Platform, API Integrations, API Observability, and Proxy. I also streamlined the hiring process, grew the engineering team, and helped several team members secure promotions. Before that, I was an engineering manager at Rippling, a payroll and benefits platform, where I built the core payroll pipeline, improved the stability of the paid time off product, and spearheaded the payroll eng support. I am also a Y Combinator Startup School Online alum, and have a bachelor's degree in information technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology.

Experience

16 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Google

Software Engineering Manager II

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Optimizing Google’s fleet capacity and costs.

Postman

Engineering Manager

Aug 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

● Led the design and strategy for multiple products like Integrations Platform, API Integrations, API Observability and Proxy.
● Overhauled the product and tech strategy for integrations.
● Guided the team in vetting and designing a new eventing pipeline for triggering integrations at large scale.
● Streamlined API Integrations by developing an unified accounts interface(single login).
● Collaborated with stakeholders to develop 15+ integrations with partners like Azure, New
Relic, Slack etc. covering GIT, CI/CD, APM, Gateway services.
● Streamlined my team’s hiring process to grow the engineering team from 5 to 15 engineers.
● Helped several team members in securing promotions.

Performance ManagementGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipTechnical ArchitectureDistributed SystemsStrategic PlanningProduct Development

Rippling

Engineering Manager

Apr 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

● Led the team to build core Payroll pipeline with tax withholding in adherence to US laws.
● Worked with all stakeholders to improve stability of Paid Time Off product. Reduced bugs and user experience issues by 90% in two months.
● Spearheaded Payroll eng support, support tickets across 3k+ payroll clients reduced by 70% in one quarter. Migrated from email based support to Zendesk.

Product DevelopmentRoadmap planningDjangoMongoDBTeam Management

Clip

Engineering Leader

Jul 2018 – Apr 2019 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Growing team by hiring across tech roles.
Mentoring team to build relevant skills to ensure fast delivery while maintaining code quality.
Managing ‘Media Platform’ teams powering videos and images on Clip. Ensuring seamless and network optimized media delivery to a scale of millions of users daily.
Brought down video compute costs by 80% via in-house transcoding system.
Designed & architected development for video transcoding and serving pipeline with adaptive bitrate streaming and latest codec support.
Managing development of image processing pipeline with functionality to resize, transform and watermark images on the fly.
Managing Clip's Progressive Web App(PWA) and boosted business metrics via better SEO through server rendered app, video playback with playlist, A/B test support, localization in Indian languages.
Actively contributing to android optimizations and performance enhancements.

JavaVideo TranscodingApache KafkaScalable ArchitectureTeam Management

Clorik

Co-Founder

Jan 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Crowdsourced content discovery platform for Indian languages. Clorik is an online platform to discover content categorized based on interest. Users choose their interests and preferred languages for getting content ranked based on relevance.
● Designed and architected RESTful microservices responsible for content and communications.
● Setup centralized event bus for handling millions of user and system generated messages per second.
● Led development of Clorik’s android app which had support for media playback, startup time <1s, app size <3MB and modularized for 'Google's Instant App' support.
● Managed engineering, growth, marketing and customer relations.
Clorik got acquired by Clip in June 2018.