Palash Kulshreshtha
Engineering Manager at Paytm
Uttar Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolPalash Kulshreshtha is an Engineering Manager with 11 years at Paytm, experienced in evolving systems from startup scrappiness through demonetization stress tests to IPO readiness and cost-optimization drives. He combines hands-on distributed systems and database expertise—sharding, active-active DR, API gateway and Kafka pipelines—with leadership in audits, observability and drive-to-production initiatives across hundreds of services. Palash has repeatedly reduced infrastructure costs (up to 40% in payouts) while improving performance and reliability, and led an Amazon Well-Architected review of 30+ services spanning 500+ servers and 12 domains. He mentors engineers through career transitions, runs RCA deep-dives to prevent repeat outages, and produces video-based system documentation to speed onboarding—an uncommon blend of operational rigor and knowledge-sharing. Based in Uttar Pradesh, he pairs product-facing collaboration with a pragmatic eye for technical debt and scalable design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Our Lady of FatimaPCM, PCM at Senior Secondary School, AMUBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at zakir hussain college of engg. & tech
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
karabiner10
nodejs10
jira10
css10
command-line10
windows10
sequence-diagram10
giphy10
explore10
chrome10
javascript10
textual10
cli10
plantuml10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
palashkulsh/dbcrawler
Aug 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:100 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
palashkulsh/jira-cmd
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Another JIRA Command Line Interface for node.js
Contributions:199 commits, 55 PRs, 73 pushes in 5 years 6 months
explorenode-jscommand-line-interfacejavascriptnpm-cli
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