Summary
Shashank Kumar is a Tech Lead with 11 years of experience building backend systems and distributed services, currently leading engineering at Quince after roles at Fi, apna, and Goldman Sachs. He brings deep expertise in Python, Django, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and cloud-native tooling, with hands-on experience integrating AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and NoSQL datastores. Early open-source contributions to SymPy and a history of practical internships (Innoplexus, Halodoc) underline a penchant for production-ready code and tooling around observability and search. Known as a fast learner who seeks technically challenging problems, he blends competitive programming discipline with real-world system design. Based in Bengaluru, Shashank pairs academic foundations from IIT (BHU) with a track record of shipping backend features, automation, and data-indexing solutions across startups and financial services.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated master's degree, Integrated master's degree at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Intermediate, Intermediate at D.A.V. Public School, Aurangabad, Bihar
English