Summary
Shefali Bhatia is a Software Engineer III on Google’s Payments Platform team with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and full-stack features at Google and startups. A UC Berkeley M.Eng. and B.S. in EECS, she blends production engineering with applied research—publishing work from computational imaging and high‑pressure materials simulations while teaching and leading NLP labs. At Google she has shipped cross-platform tooling and performance optimizations that served thousands of users and improved search and migration pipelines, demonstrating an eye for both architecture and operational robustness. Comfortable across Java, cloud platforms, and data-driven research workflows, she often bridges product, privacy/security, and multi-team design reviews. Based in Berkeley, she brings a research-informed engineering approach that surfaces subtle algorithmic and systems tradeoffs in payments and infrastructure projects.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Hindi, Spanish