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    "name": "Sharad Shinde",
    "label": "Staff Engineer",
    "email": "shindesharad71@gmail.com",
    "phone": "+91 7038555441",
    "url": "https://shrd.in",
    "summary": "Staff Engineer with 8+ years building and operating backend systems that serve millions of users. Works across microservices architecture, distributed system design, and data-layer performance — setting technical direction across teams and mentoring the engineers around him.",
    "location": { "city": "Pune", "countryCode": "IN" },
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      { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "shindesharad71", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shindesharad71/" }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "HighLevel",
      "position": "Staff Engineer",
      "startDate": "2025",
      "highlights": [
        "Set backend architecture and technical direction across product teams — owning system-design reviews and cross-cutting standards for services that serve millions of users.",
        "Lead the design of high-throughput microservices and their data models for reliability and performance under sustained load.",
        "Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through design review, code quality, and incident practices."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "HighLevel",
      "position": "Lead Engineer",
      "startDate": "2022",
      "endDate": "2025",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a team of engineers delivering backend services and product features on HighLevel's platform, from architecture through production.",
        "Owned design and delivery of core backend services, partnering with product to ship reliably at scale."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kuvera",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2021-09",
      "endDate": "2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Replaced traditional search with Elasticsearch indexes, delivering faster, better-matched results for global asset search.",
        "Architected a generic Ruby on Rails backend for the Fixed Deposit product, letting new partners be onboarded quickly.",
        "Drove migration of the monolith to microservices aligned to product boundaries.",
        "Instrumented the application with Prometheus and Grafana for performance and scale monitoring."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SMS India Pvt. Ltd.",
      "position": "Full Stack Developer",
      "startDate": "2021-02",
      "endDate": "2021-08",
      "highlights": [
        "Built REST APIs with Python / FastAPI for platform and customer integrations, shipping with 90% test coverage (PyTest unit + integration).",
        "Integrated SSO with role-based authentication and authorization; delivered the Angular front end for the business logic."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Coditas Solutions LLP",
      "position": "Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2018-06",
      "endDate": "2021-02",
      "highlights": [
        "Refactored REST services into a microservices architecture and migrated the codebase to TypeScript (Node.js, Express, MongoDB).",
        "Moved underlying services to AWS Lambda (serverless), improving performance by 20%.",
        "Restructured an Angular 8 app with NgRx; integrated Twilio, AWS SES/SQS, and Docker."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "WebMatrix Technologies",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "startDate": "2017-11",
      "endDate": "2018-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Rewrote an AngularJS app to Angular 2; built REST APIs in Node.js/Express with JWT auth."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Savitribai Phule Pune University",
      "area": "Computer Engineering",
      "studyType": "B.E.",
      "endDate": "2021"
    },
    {
      "institution": "MSBTE",
      "area": "Computer Engineering",
      "studyType": "Diploma",
      "startDate": "2012",
      "endDate": "2015"
    }
  ],
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    { "name": "Languages", "keywords": ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Ruby", "Go"] },
    { "name": "Frameworks", "keywords": ["Node.js", "Express", "Angular", "React", "Vue", "FastAPI", "Ruby on Rails"] },
    { "name": "Databases", "keywords": ["MongoDB", "MySQL", "Postgres", "Elasticsearch"] },
    { "name": "Tools & Infra", "keywords": ["Prometheus", "Grafana", "Docker", "AWS", "Git", "Jenkins"] },
    { "name": "Practices", "keywords": ["System design", "Microservices", "Agile"] }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Personal website",
      "url": "https://shrd.in",
      "description": "Portfolio built with Astro — static output, self-hosted fonts, near-perfect Lighthouse scores."
    },
    {
      "name": "Anstagram",
      "url": "https://github.com/shindesharad71/Anstagram",
      "description": "Instagram clone built with Angular 8, Node.js, and MongoDB; NRWL monorepo tooling, Nginx reverse proxy."
    }
  ],
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