About
As a Lead Software Engineer, I believe resilient software is built at the intersection of robust distributed architecture, clear communication, and empowering high-performing engineering teams. At Packapeer Academy, I progressed from Junior to Lead Engineer, and now oversee a 21-member cross-functional engineering team. My day-to-day involves architectural ownership of microservices, distributed messaging pipelines, and automated payment gateways that handle millions in transactions every month. What I bring to engineering teams: 🔹 Architectural Resilience: Whether designing an AMQP message bus in RabbitMQ to eliminate payment bottlenecks, setting up KrakenD API Gateway to protect microservices from 10k+ daily traffic spikes, or integrating HDFC SmartGateway to process ₹1–3 Cr/mo with zero leakage—I design for failure-tolerance and zero data loss. 🔹 People amp; Engineering Culture: I manage 21 engineers with a focus on ownership, high standards (Liquibase DB migrations, Awilix IoC, strict typing), and fast iteration cycles. By championing AI-accelerated workflows, we reduced feature lead times by 35%. 🔹 System Design Thought Leadership: I write technical breakdowns on Medium covering concurrency patterns, internet communication protocols (HTTP/2, WebSockets, gRPC, AMQP), and API gateway orchestration. Stack: TypeScript | React | Node.js | PostgreSQL | Redis | RabbitMQ | KrakenD | AWS | Docker 🌐 Portfolio: https://shibildas.github.io/shibildas/ ✉️ Email: shibildas@gmail.com ✍️ Medium: https://medium.com/@shibildas
Work experience
Lead Software Engineer at Brototype, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Banglore
Lead Software Engineer at PACKAPEER ACADEMY PRIVATE LIMITED, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Own architecture and technical delivery across backend microservices, KrakenD API gateway integrations, and full-stack web applications supporting 2,500–2,800 active daily students/staff and 10,000+ daily web visitors.
Senior Software Engineer at Brototype, Sep 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Senior Software Engineer at PACKAPEER ACADEMY PRIVATE LIMITED, Aug 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Architected automated payment processing with HDFC SmartGateway, processing INR 1–3 Cr in monthly transaction volume with zero payment leakage, and automated ∼1,000 monthly facilitation invoices.
Junior Software Engineer at Brototype, Aug 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, India
Junior Software Engineer at PACKAPEER ACADEMY PRIVATE LIMITED, Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Developed modular, responsive React components and Node.js/Express REST APIs; digitized manual record-keeping into automated management dashboards while resolving critical production bugs.
Frontend Developer at Makbig, Jul 2023 - Aug 2023 · 2 mos, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, Collaborated on a 1-month contract to engineer responsive UI views from Figma specifications and refactored real-time chat components in React, resolving state synchronization and mobile viewport bugs.
Business Development Manager at HDFC Life, Apr 2020 - Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Malappuram, Kerala, India
Estimator at R.C.G., Aug 2015 - Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos, United Arab Emirates
