Shiva Kumar is a seasoned builder and enterprise architect based in Mumbai with 13 years of experience designing and delivering scalable web and fintech systems. He has led end-to-end projects—from architecting high-throughput centralized authentication and reverse-proxy services handling millions of requests per day to shipping customer engagement, bookkeeping, and wallet apps on AWS. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and strategic delivery, he has a track record of choosing pragmatic tools to solve operational problems and automating processes like KYC with Amazon Rekognition. As Delivery Head and Technical Lead at Nearby Technologies and now self-employed while serving as Enterprise Architect at PayNearby, he blends product ownership with deep implementation experience. He started his career building Rails-driven consumer platforms and later moved into cloud-native, Go-based services for high-scale systems. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into reliable production services, he focuses on using technology to make measurable impact on users’ lives.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, Science, HSC, Science at Andhra Education Society Junior College
BE, Computer Science & Engineering, BE, Computer Science & Engineering at Hi-tech Institute of Technology
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU), Aurangabad
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