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title: "Harsh Shah - SDE-2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Harsh Shah, Engineering @Pronto | Ex: CRED, Uni Cards, Disney+ Hotstar | IIIT Bangalore based in Bengaluru."
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# Harsh Shah on Tal

## Headline

Engineering @Pronto \| Ex: CRED, Uni Cards, Disney\+ Hotstar \| IIIT Bangalore

## About

I’m a backend engineer who enjoys turning complex product requirements into reliable systems\. Currently an SDE\-2 at Pronto, I work on the backend experiences that power everyday home services\. Previously, I worked at CRED and Uni Cards, building systems across payments, repayments, subscriptions, and lending workflows\. My experience also includes internships at Disney\+ Hotstar and Betterhalf\.ai\. I enjoy owning problems end to end—from shaping the design and writing code to rolling it out and understanding how it behaves in production\. I care about clear abstractions, practical engineering decisions, and the small details that make products work better for users\. I hold an M\.Tech in Computer Science from IIIT Bangalore, where I also served as a teaching assistant for Algorithms and Software Production Engineering\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

SDE\-2 at Pronto, Jun 2026 \- Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Backend Engineer \(SDE\-2\) at CRED, Oct 2025 \- Jun 2026 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDE\-2 at Uni Cards, Aug 2025 \- Oct 2025 · 3 mos

SDE\-1 at Uni Cards, Feb 2024 \- Aug 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

SDE\-1 at Betterhalf, Aug 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \-Worked under the Astrologer POD, contributing to UX improvements, internal tooling, and CRM integrations\. \-Developed an internal admin panel with ACL integration, streamlining astrologer onboarding and management—resulting in a 90% boost in operational efficiency and improved transparency\. \-Designed and implemented a custom rule engine powering the AstroZodiac ranking algorithm, leading to an 80% increase in daily active users and a 15% revenue uplift through optimized user\-astrologer matching\. \-Spearheaded the initial setup and structure in ZOHO CRM for the wedding services vertical, enabling scalability and process automation for the new business line known as \(The Wedding Company\)\.

SDE at Disney\+ Hotstar, Dec 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \-Worked under Growth and International POD\. \-Built an orchestration service for two main downstream services of Hotstar\- Payments and Subscriptions to serve dynamic queries while ensuring the generic search system, using Spring Boot and Java\. \-Designed both High\-Level and Low\-Level designs of the service ground up\. The architecture prioritizes scalability, maintainability, and extendability\. \-Built a DAG from the two different databases' schema to serve fetch queries and used DB replica to separate out the load from the master DB\.

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Computer Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Engineering, SILVER OAK UNIVERSITY

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