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Sharan Girdhani

Director of Engineering @Snabbit

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Snabbit
Mar 20266 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Porter
Oct 20241 yr 6 mosMar 2026

Bengaluru

- Handled teams like Payments Platform, Locations Intelligence, Finance Platform, Trust n Safety, Expansion - International & Rest of India charter.
Porter
Sep 20231 yr 3 mosNov 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Maps and Payments
Khatabook
Apr 20221 yr 6 mosSep 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Khatabook
Jan 20211 yr 3 mosMar 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Yelp
Oct 20191 yr 4 mosJan 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

o Led efforts to build a product which offers both waitlist and reservations to restaurants- o Designed an algorithm that automatically merges the reservations into waitlist at the right time. o Integrated this product with Yelp’s guestbook service. o Designed and Implemented cross-cutting, application wide full stack features with care for application and developer impact. o Worked actively on Yelp Waitlist ETL product, responsible for taking the production data to data warehouses. o Led multiple efforts to set up process and structure across the organization like ‘Pushmasters Sync’ and ‘Build Me A Yelp’. o Contributed towards determining team’s quarterly OKRs and their corresponding project prioritization.
Yelp
Feb 20181 yr 8 mosSep 2019

San Francisco, California, United States

CouponDunia
Jun 20142 yrs 2 mosJul 2016

Mumbai Area, India

Complete web development (both Frontend and Backend). Mainly efficient in MySQL, MVC, PHP(+Yii Framework) , javascript(+JQuery), AJAX, CSS and HTML. Worked on Service Oriented Architecture of 7 different services interacting with one another using Restful APIs in an Agile development environment.
GitHub
@sharan1

Sharan’s AI Stack

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Education

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

20161 yr2017
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

20104 yrs2014

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Headline

Director of Engineering @Snabbit

About

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Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Director of Engineering at Snabbit, Mar 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Engineering Manager at Porter, Oct 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, - Handled teams like Payments Platform, Locations Intelligence, Finance Platform, Trust n Safety, Expansion - International & Rest of India charter.

Engineering Manager at Porter, Sep 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Maps and Payments

Engineering Manager at Khatabook, Apr 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer III at Khatabook, Jan 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer III at Yelp, Oct 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, o Led efforts to build a product which offers both waitlist and reservations to restaurants- o Designed an algorithm that automatically merges the reservations into waitlist at the right time. o Integrated this product with Yelp’s guestbook service. o Designed and Implemented cross-cutting, application wide full stack features with care for application and developer impact. o Worked actively on Yelp Waitlist ETL product, responsible for taking the production data to data warehouses. o Led multiple efforts to set up process and structure across the organization like ‘Pushmasters Sync’ and ‘Build Me A Yelp’. o Contributed towards determining team’s quarterly OKRs and their corresponding project prioritization.

Software Engineer II at Yelp, Feb 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, San Francisco, California, United States

Software Engineer at CouponDunia, Jun 2014 - Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Mumbai Area, India, Complete web development (both Frontend and Backend). Mainly efficient in MySQL, MVC, PHP(+Yii Framework) , javascript(+JQuery), AJAX, CSS and HTML. Worked on Service Oriented Architecture of 7 different services interacting with one another using Restful APIs in an Agile development environment.

Education

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Public links

github: https://github.com/sharan1

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