About

Shishir Jain is a technology leader with over 12 years of experience in both start-up and corporate environments. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Paytm, where he leads the development of high-performance, highly available, and scalable systems. Shishir has hands-on experience in design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of robust systems. He has a successful track record in spearheading, developing, and implementing various software projects within agreed cost and timelines without incidences of overruns. His expertise lies in building and managing teams of highly passionate engineers. Shishir's specialties include Java, Spring, Hibernate, NodeJS, Express, Maven, NGinx, MySQL, Redis, Aerospike, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, micro-services, Agile methodologies, team building, and mentoring. In his current role as Director of Engineering at Paytm, Shishir is responsible for leading the development of the company's technology platform. He has also held senior roles at Paytm, including Sr. Engineering Manager and Engineering Manager. In these roles, he led the backend technology team to build the platform from scratch to enable merchants to upload vendor invoices, make payments, and reconcile. He also led the backend tech team for Paytm's digital ledger, Business Khata, enabling merchants to record their 'Udhars'/Payments and send payment reminders. Shishir holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His technical skills include Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Kafka, Spring, Microservices, NodeJS, Java, and Parts-of-speech. With 13.61 years of relevant experience, Shishir is a highly skilled and experienced technology leader with a passion for building and managing high-performing teams and delivering robust systems.