Raj Sharma is a Director of Engineering based in Bengaluru with a decade of experience building high-throughput data pipelines and fintech platforms. He rose through multiple leadership roles at Cashfree Payments, shaping product and engineering strategy from hands-on product lead to director-level ownership. A micro-SaaS enthusiast and self-hosting proponent, he favors pragmatic "it just works" solutions that prioritize reliability and operational simplicity. Raj has entrepreneurial rootsโco-founding startups across fashion tech, neighborhood social apps, and e-commerceโwhich sharpened his product intuition and end-to-end delivery skills. He pairs strong systems thinking with a bias for shipping, often translating complex AI and data requirements into practical pipelines for production. Outside core work, he invests time in building small, self-hosted tools that reflect his preference for clean, maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B Tech Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Silchar
+2 Science, +2 Science at Army Public School, Narangi
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
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Raj Sharma - Director Of Engineering at Cashfree Payments