Shagun Khemka is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, user-focused backend systems across fintech and consumer platforms, currently at JioHotstar. He has led end-to-end ownership of high-impact microservices — notably a FamCard system serving 5M+ customers and a gift-card backend driving over Rs. 50 crore GMV — and has experience guiding small teams to deliver productized solutions. Skilled in backend development and DevOps, he contributed to the open-source Badgeyay project by improving performance, adding validation and CI/CD, and writing tests, reflecting an attention to production quality and automation. His background includes payments, onboarding automation and merchant tooling from roles at FamPay and Instamojo, and a postgraduate focus on blockchain engineering, indicating both practical delivery chops and interest in emerging tech.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at Niranjanlal Dalmia High School
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology
Post Graduate Diploma in Software Development (Blockchain), Post Graduate Diploma in Software Development (Blockchain) at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Attendee Badge Generator for Conferences http://badgeyay.com Backend: http://badgeyay-dev.herokuapp.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:46 commits, 48 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shagun primarily contributed to the back-end development and deployment of the attendee badge generator. Their work includes fixing code typos, adding input validation, and optimizing the application by adding flask-compress. Furthermore, they set up and configured the CI/CD pipeline, and enabled automated deployment, demonstrating DevOps skills. They also added unit tests using PhantomJS.
A simple language translator using IBM Watson and nodejs
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
translationnodejsibmtranslatoribm-watson
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Shagun Khemka - Senior Software Engineer 1 at JioHotstar