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Nikhil Shinde

Founding Engineer | Fintech | Web3 | Onchain

Bengaluru

8+ years of work experience

PortOne Korea
Mar 20233 yrs 6 mosPresent

Remote

• Building backends and infrastructure for Payments & Crypto at scale • Founding engineer at CHAIPort (Payment orchestration platform by PortOne) • Tech owner for Master-Merchant, Payment Link, Payment Pages, Invoices products
PortOne Korea
Mar 20212 yrs 1 moMar 2023

• Built merchant console, and PSP integration pipeline from scratch • Launched new products in Vietnam, Thailand & other SEA countries • Founding team member & part of 0-1 journey
Playpower Labs
Jul 20182 yrs 8 mosFeb 2021

Remote <> Gandhinagar, India

> Senior engineer building and scaling technology & services department. > Tech owner for Kidaptive Recommendation Service used in EdTech platforms of PlaypowerLabs. > Established coding standards and code review process.
Jun 20181 yr 8 mosJan 2020

India

Google
Apr 20183 mosJun 2018

India <> Seattle

Google Summer Of Code 2018 for TLA+ Foundation. > TLA+ is a formal specification language developed to design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems. > I worked as a student developer with Markus Kuppe, Loki der quaeler to increase code coverage of TLA+ toolbox to avoid software regressions on the addition of new features.
MAQ Software
Jan 20186 mosJun 2018

Hyderabad Area, India

> Majorly contributed to Product and Tech in Business Insights Team. > Implemented basic reporting for Microsoft OCP Users using the SQL backend > Improved dashboard PLTs up to 50% by re-writing stored procedures powering the reports > Implemented nested data-view table component to provide user more insights in OCP computes
GitHub
@0xnikshi

Nikhil’s AI Stack

anthropic apis
anthropic apis
claude code
claude code
claude
claude
cursor
cursor
deepseek
deepseek
hermes agent
hermes agent

Education

Nirma University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering

Nirma University

20144 yrs2018

Higher Secondary School, Science Stream

Creative Academy, Pune

20113 yrs2014

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Headline

Founding Engineer | Fintech | Web3 | Onchain

About

0 -> 1 Engineer * Capable of taking an idea from a thought to implementation. * All-round implementation including front-end, backend, and infrastructure. * Experienced in designing and building reliable systems capable of scaling to millions of users. * Strong intuitions for B2C products and B2B, B2C financial products. * Strong hands-on experience building with AWS, Kubernetes, etc * I believe - The more and more you learn, the more and more there is to learn. Perspectives - https://x.com/0xnikshi

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

deepseek

hermes agent

Work experience

Tech Lead / Senior SDE at PortOne Korea, Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Remote, • Building backends and infrastructure for Payments & Crypto at scale • Founding engineer at CHAIPort (Payment orchestration platform by PortOne) • Tech owner for Master-Merchant, Payment Link, Payment Pages, Invoices products

Founding engineer at PortOne Korea, Mar 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, • Built merchant console, and PSP integration pipeline from scratch • Launched new products in Vietnam, Thailand & other SEA countries • Founding team member & part of 0-1 journey

Senior Software Engineer at Playpower Labs, Jul 2018 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Remote <> Gandhinagar, India, > Senior engineer building and scaling technology & services department. > Tech owner for Kidaptive Recommendation Service used in EdTech platforms of PlaypowerLabs. > Established coding standards and code review process.

Engineering & Everything at Stealth Healthcare Startup, Jun 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos, India

GSoC Student Developer at Google, Apr 2018 - Jun 2018 · 3 mos, India <> Seattle, Google Summer Of Code 2018 for TLA+ Foundation. > TLA+ is a formal specification language developed to design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems. > I worked as a student developer with Markus Kuppe, Loki der quaeler to increase code coverage of TLA+ toolbox to avoid software regressions on the addition of new features.

Software Engineering Intern at MAQ Software, Jan 2018 - Jun 2018 · 6 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, > Majorly contributed to Product and Tech in Business Insights Team. > Implemented basic reporting for Microsoft OCP Users using the SQL backend > Improved dashboard PLTs up to 50% by re-writing stored procedures powering the reports > Implemented nested data-view table component to provide user more insights in OCP computes

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Nirma University

Higher Secondary School, Science Stream, Creative Academy, Pune

Public links

github: https://github.com/0xnikshi