Shagun Khemka
Engineering @JioHotstar | Ex-FamPay(YC S19), Instamojo
Mumbai
7+ years of work experience
Mar 20242 yrs 6 mosPresent
Jun 20203 yrs 10 mosMar 2024
- Led a team of 4 backend engineers, owned sprint planning, architectural decisions and code reviews while driving architecture, scalability, and operational excellence for the FamCard microservice; supported 5M+ virtual cards, 200K+ physical deliveries, ₹10M+ in daily transaction volume, and achieved a ~30% reduction in card delivery costs.
- Spearheaded revenue-generating features for 5M+ monthly transacting users (MTUs), including Recharge, Gift
Cards, and Electricity, contributing to ~60% of the company's total revenue.
- Supported Leadership & Talent in hiring, by conducting technical interviews and mentoring 5+ backend interns and junior developers who secured full-time roles at Fam and leading tech companies.
- Designed and implemented FamCoins, an extensible virtual currency system, enhancing user engagement and
retention across the app.
Jul 201911 mosMay 2020
Greater Bengaluru Area
- Developed chat service integration on Instamojo's online store which helped connect store owners with their customers and can be tracked as leads in leads manager app. Have seen ~10% organic adoption among active online stores.
- Developed ingestion service for Instamojo's reseller program for adding of products in search module for customers in order to become reseller. Have seen ~5.5k products been successfully ingested in just over 1 month of beta release into search module and also an increase in customer engagement and their acquisition.
- Developed creditbook , expense management feature in the Instamojo android app which allows merchants manage their daily expenses and send payment reminder instantly with payment link. Was involved In high-level system design, creating API contract along with developing payment reminder feature.
- Worked on products such as SME Pulse, Instant Payout on Whatsapp.
Jan 20197 mosJul 2019
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Was awarded full-time job opportunity for excellent performance as an Intern
- Developed automated service with respect to onboarding service on Instamojo(kyc resubmission) which would decreased overall kyc resubmission's count by ~25% thereby
improving efficiency of onboarding process.
- Developed range of information extraction(such as builtwith, clearbit risk, instagram likes) crontasks that would fetch relevant data for particular merchant which would then be persisted into different data models that have use cases such as sending them as leads to sales team(customer acquisition), risk assessments.
May 20183 mosJul 2018
Bengaluru Area, India
- Was awarded Consecutive internship opportunity for excellent performance as an Intern.
- Implemented features of Auto-KYC Resubmission which on providing details such as PAN Card, Bank document along with their images uploaded would return whether data provided for that document is similar or not.
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Education
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology
Vellore Institute of Technology
20154 yrs2019
Post Graduate Diploma in Software Development (Blockchain)
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
20191 yr2020
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