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title: "Karan Shinde - Lead Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Karan Shinde, Lead Software Engineer based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and hugging face."
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# Karan Shinde on Tal

## Headline

Lead Software Engineer

## About

Software Developer at PayU Winner of SIH 2020 Winner of Megathon2019 Winner of Codebreak1\.0

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

hugging face

langchain

langgraph

LiteLLM

## Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Cashfree Payments, Apr 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, On\-site

Senior Software Engineer at Cashfree Payments, Jun 2025 \- Mar 2026 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Software Engineer at PayU, Oct 2024 \- Jul 2025 · 10 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Senior Software Engineer at PayU, Apr 2023 \- Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Software Engineer at PayU, Jun 2020 \- Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Sinhgad Academy of Engineering

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