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shubham khandelwal

@shubhamkhandelwal1

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Founder-led technologist specializing in backend, payments, and real-time systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can lead backend and payments engineering, influence product strategy, mentor teams, and build scalable, real-time consumer platforms.

I am a founder-led technologist with ~9 years of experience building and scaling consumer platforms, payments systems, and real-time applications. I built and launched SkillsPe, a skill-based real-money gaming platform, and have led engineering, product, and operations end-to-end from vision to execution.

As a senior software engineer and technical lead, I designed low-latency, reliable backend architectures and payment flows serving millions of users, drove scalability and fault tolerance, and set coding and delivery standards for high-impact teams. I have hands-on experience across Python (Django, Flask), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kafka, and databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

I mentor and build lean engineering teams, collaborate with legal, payments, and compliance stakeholders, and deliver product-focused solutions including internal workflow platforms, recommendation engines, and NLP-driven pipelines. My work emphasizes correctness, security, and measurable business impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

PhonePe

Apr 2022 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Technical lead for high-scale payment and transaction systems serving millions of users; designed low-latency, reliable backend systems and drove decisions on scalability, security, and data integrity. Collaborated with product, risk, ops, and analytics to deliver critical payment flows.

Payments Backend Systems Scalability Fault Tolerance Python Microservices Distributed Systems Reliability

Founder & CEO

SkillsPe

Mar 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 5 months)

Founded and led development of a real-money skill-based gaming platform, owning product vision, platform architecture, wallet flows, compliance, and go-to-market from 0→1. Built and mentored a lean engineering team and managed payments, legal, and operational integrations for launch.

Payments Distributed Systems Wallet Flows Product Roadmap Compliance Team Leadership Go To Market

Technical Lead

GigIndia

Sep 2020 - Apr 2022 (1 year 7 months)

Led a 6-member engineering team across four products owning design, execution, and delivery of mobile apps, operational tools, and analytics platforms; improved operational efficiency through automation and delivered production-grade reliability.

Team Leadership Product Ownership Python Infrastructure Automation Analytics Roadmapping

Software Engineer

Unscrambl Inc.

Feb 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Built NLP-driven data pipelines and real-time campaign management systems; implemented secure Kafka-based ingestion for banks and telecoms and delivered customer-facing chatbot solutions and production deployments in Indonesia.

NLP Kafka Real Time Systems Data Pipelines Microsoft Bot Framework Python Deployment Enterprise Solutions

Software Engineer

Sproutlogix

May 2016 - Feb 2019 (2 years 9 months)

Developed real-time Firebase applications, administrative analytics dashboards, and gamification modules; implemented NLP summarization and internal recommendation bots to improve engagement and productivity.