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title: "Nikhil Shinde - Tech Lead / Senior SDE in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Nikhil Shinde, Founding Engineer | Fintech | Web3 | Onchain based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/nikhil-shinde-2/share-image"
---

# Nikhil Shinde on Tal

## 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

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