Summary
Sharan Girdhani is a director-level engineering leader with 11 years of experience building payment, maps, trust & safety, and finance platforms across startups and large consumer products. Currently leading engineering at Snabbit after scaling multi-disciplinary teams at Porter and Khatabook, he combines hands-on system design with organizational processes that improve delivery and developer experience. His background includes designing cross-cutting full-stack features and data pipelines at Yelp and end-to-end web service work earlier in his career, demonstrating fluency across backend, frontend, and ETL. Trained with an MS in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte and a B.Tech from IIITH, he brings both strong academic foundations and pragmatic product focus. Colleagues value his knack for turning complex operational problems—like merging reservations into live waitlists—into reliable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
English, Hindi, Sindhi