Shashank Shekhar

At YC-backed Kaagaz, I drive backend architecture, AI capabilities, monetization, and reliability across consumer and SMB products, contributing to revenue growth of approximately 12x since joining.

I shipped Product Photoshoot, Marketing Studio, PosterX, Profile Studio, and Digital Business Card Maker using OpenAI, Gemini, Veo, ElevenLabs, FFmpeg, and Spring AI. I also built a tool-enabled chat AI agent and optimized model selection, prompts, media pipelines, latency, and AI cost.

I led Poster Maker's Spring Boot migration from EC2 to Dockerized ECS Fargate with GitLab CI/CD and autoscaling, creating a resilient platform for peak-demand events while reducing infrastructure cost. Previously at Blackhawk Network and TribeTech, I owned microservices, improved API performance, built workflow and rules-engine capabilities, and supported production systems end-to-end.

Across nearly nine years in software engineering, I’ve worked hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, distributed processing, AWS, databases, cloud infrastructure, and AI/media APIs to turn complex product requirements into reliable production systems.