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Shivam Jindal

@shivamjindal

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Tech lead and senior backend engineer building DRM video, payments, search, and RAG systems on AWS.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead and build end-to-end backend platforms at scale—DRM/video, payments, and data-heavy services—with strong engineering standards, clear ownership, and a culture of reliability, observability, and thoughtful performance optimization.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead who owns backend platforms end-to-end—from architecture and hiring to delivery. At Mythik (OTT video streaming), I led a 9-engineer backend team and architected a multi-DRM video pipeline on AWS MediaConvert (SPEKE v2, Widevine DASH, FairPlay HLS) with CMAF unified delivery and scalable subtitle support.

I build secure, reliable systems for real-world scale: I implemented OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, JWT/JWS verification, and RBAC scope enforcement, plus a two-level caching strategy (Caffeine L1 + Redis L2). I also delivered payments across SVOD/TVOD (JusPay, Google Play Billing, Apple StoreKit 2) with idempotent processing, engineered search and recommendations (OpenSearch, Milvus/Zilliz), and shipped RAG pipelines with confidence-aware responses—while driving migrations, performance profiling, and observability via OpenTelemetry.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead

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Mythik

Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Led a 9-engineer backend team and owned the OTT platform end-to-end across architecture, hiring, and delivery. Built DRM-based video pipelines, payments, authentication/RBAC, caching, search, recommendations, RAG, observability, and cloud and CI/CD migrations.

Software Engineer II

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Oct 2020 - Dec 2024 (4 years 2 months)

Built backend services on the PlayStation 5 critical path within PSN availability requirements for 100M+ active accounts globally. Delivered improvements across caching, Kubernetes migration, gateway security, testing, and AWS/CI security policies.

Kubernetes AWS ECS Docker Compose Caching DynamoDB DynamoDB Read Optimization ASM Gateway Token Verification Access Token Issuance OAuth JWT Style Token Verification Docker Parameterized Tests Jenkins Security Policies Security Groups Ansible

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Integrated B.Tech (Honours) & M.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

Grade: All India Rank 403 out of 1.5 million candidates

Activities and societies: M.Tech thesis: automated relay-logic generation for Indian Railways using a custom Java query language for XML parsing.

Completed an Integrated B.Tech (Honours) and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. Served as a Teaching Assistant for Compilers Lab and Switching Circuit Lab.