Shubham Kokul
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolShubham Kokul is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with eight years of experience building large-scale, low-latency backend systems for fintech and payments. At PayPal he led Agentic Checkout, a Shopping Personalization platform, and a greenfield Checkout Orchestrator that enabled sub-2s checkout experiences while integrating AI and partner collaborations with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. His background includes high-throughput trade processing at Goldman Sachs and payment modernization work at Costco Travel and AsiaPay, where he designed tokenization, settlement engines, and timezone-aware settlement systems. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Dayton and is practiced in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and GraphQL-driven flows. Known for bringing product sense to infrastructure work, he focuses on adaptable, customer-centric systems that measurably improve latency, reliability, and business outcomes. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of coordinating cross-functional and partner efforts to turn greenfield ideas into globally-operational platforms.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of DaytonBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (58)
energy-efficiency10
mercury10
energy-data10
modeling-tool10
factory10
energy10
calculation10
modeling10
steam10
ord9
javascript9
power-systems9
industrial9
typescript9
hpc-applications9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ORNL-AMO/Logtool
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Logtool for importing data and visualization
Contributions:174 PRs, 201 pushes, 35 branches in 2 months
data-and-visualizationdata-importingimportingvisualization
shubhamkokul/nebula
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
APIs for stocks, Forex etc and sentimental analysis on news
Contributions:24 PRs, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
fixprotocolapistock-marketpythonforex
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