Shaurya Shahi is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend systems for startups and enterprise teams, currently focusing on AI security and agentic red teaming at Palo Alto Networks. He began his career founding a mobile app studio and has been an early engineer at multiple unicorns, helping grow an app to over 10 million downloads while designing resilient cloud architectures and observability stacks. Comfortable across Python, Ruby on Rails, AWS and GCP, he blends hands-on coding with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and driving faster product cycles. Beyond product work he’s launched a large gaming community that groomed players into professional e-sports, highlighting a knack for building engaged ecosystems as well as software.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
12th Physics Chemistry Mathematics English and Computer Science, 12th Physics Chemistry Mathematics English and Computer Science at Delhi Public School, Patna
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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Shaurya Shahi - Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks