Karan Singh
Engineering + Product | Fintech | Web3 | Ex - Shopee, Samsung | JU’20
London Area
6+ years of work experience
Sep 20241 yr 10 mosPresent
Singapore
Fintech / Web3 💸
Dec 20221 yr 10 mosSep 2024
Singapore
Worked on Hex Trust’s institutional digital asset custody platform, supporting 500+ institutional clients and $3B+ in assets under custody.
Built backend services across blockchain integrations, authentication, and custody workflows, helping the platform scale reliably for institutional users.
Feb 20211 yr 10 mosNov 2022
Singapore
Moved to Singapore to join Shopee during its hyper-growth phase, working on the Payments team as the company scaled into one of the world’s largest shopping platforms.
Built and shipped products and features at massive scale across multiple high-volume markets.
May 20209 mosJan 2021
Co-founded ProxyPrep, an interview-preparation platform built during the COVID lockdown to support students and early-career professionals.
- Led growth and marketing, scaling the platform to 500+ paying customers in 6 months.
- Owned early go-to-market execution, including user acquisition, positioning, customer feedback, and product iteration.
Oct 20191 yr 3 mosDec 2020
Hybrid
Got early hands-on experience building production-oriented systems across backend engineering, blockchain tooling, and machine learning in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Built a Go-based gRPC microservice to handle video-streaming traffic and support IPFS-based media delivery workflows, improving service throughput by 20%.
- Developed internal Solidity tooling to execute and test smart contract functions on EVM test networks, including transaction submission, receipt tracking, and error debugging.
Education
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Information Technology
Jadavpur University
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