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title: "Shubham Kukreja - Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Shubham Kukreja on Tal

## Headline

Tech @CRED \| Ex\-MPL

## About

Founder\-minded engineer building zero\-to\-one products and systems at scale\. Currently Senior Software Engineer at Mobile Premier League \(MPL\), working on real\-time multiplayer games handling 1M\+ concurrent users, taking products from idea to production in weeks, contributing to $50M\+ GMV, and leading teams end\-to\-end\. Previously Founder & CEO of Crictez, a Web3 cricket collectibles platform built from scratch, and later acquired \. Also led Web3 engineering at Good Game Exchange, building high\-usage NFT contracts on Polygon with $10M\+ GMV\. I care about ownership, speed, and building things users actually want\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

codex

elevenlabs

gemini

hermes agent

Figma Make

## Work experience

Software Engineer at CRED, Mar 2026 \- Present · 6 mos

Senior Software Engineer at Mobile Premier League \(MPL\), Jul 2023 \- Feb 2026 · 2 y 7 mo, Banglore, • Worked on development of high\-traffic real\-time card games using Sockets, Redis, and Pub\-Sub architecture, seamlessly managing > 1 million users over sockets\. • Built and managed the platform’s top games, driving them from ideation to production in under 4 weeks each, collectively achieving a GMV of over $50 million over next few months\. • Implemented an internal metrics library using Open\-telemetry, Prometheus and Grafana, guiding developers across teams to onboard it into their games for real\-time monitoring\. • Managed a 3\-member team across multiple game projects, driving end\-to\-end delivery from while ensuring high performance, reliability, and adherence to tight timelines\. • Built fledged testing suite for integration and performance testing of multiplayer games as a side project, providing end\-to\-end ownership from architecture to deployment\.

Web3 Lead at Good Game Exchange, Aug 2021 \- Jul 2023 · 2 yrs, Banglore, • Wrote and managed one of the most used ERC721 contracts on polygon mainnet with∼5 million on\-chain transfers and trading GMV close to $10 million across 700,00 users • Built micro\-services for asynchronous, atomic and cost\-efficient relaying transactions on blockchains using smart queuing mechanisms\. Successfully handled peak rates of∼900rps • Create on\-chain vesting schedules for GGT, native token of GGX & setup token vesting for GGT across all stakeholders, involving creating multi\-sig safes • Directed audits of all contracts conducted by reputable auditors including Certik and Quillhash

Strategic Initiatives \- Web3 at Mobile Premier League \(MPL\), Jul 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 6 mos, Banglore, • Software engineering role with specific focus on blockchain/cryptocurrencies • Worked closely with senior leadership\(CEO/VPs/Product\)to chart out a new experimental product • Managed overall execution of the project from a tech perspective • Co\-led a 30\+ people outsourced technical team to build a new blockchain product from scratch • Completed execution of the product \(beta\-stage\) for a company\-wide play\-test in under 20 weeks

Founder at Crictez, Aug 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 1 yr, Mumbai, • Built a full\-blown web3 product from scratch \- Crictez, Collectible Platform For Cricket • Formed a small but mighty team across \- Product, Engineering, Design • Managed daily operations and finances of the company, monitoring KPIs for growth • Oversaw product development strategy and decision\-making • Raised a equity free grant of $10K from Tezos Foundation

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Pune Institute of Computer Technology

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/shubham\-kukreja

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