About

Shivam Tripathi is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience in the tech industry. He is currently working at Quizizz Inc., a fast-growing VC funded startup based out of Bangalore, where he is responsible for solving problems in the domains of engineering and product. As a part of the initial team of 3 back-end developers, Shivam played a crucial role in scaling the engineering infrastructure from 10M MAUs to 70 MAUs. He has also developed highly engaging features that have earned the company a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 82 in a highly competitive ed-tech ecosystem. At Quizizz, Shivam is currently leading the Growth Team, where he manages a team of 7 developers in a fast-paced, highly experimental setting. He focuses on team building, clarity of ideas, execution speed, quick data-backed iterations, and high standards. Shivam has successfully brainstormed and executed ideas to product-led acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention, running multiple A/B tests for different geographies concurrently. He has also led and delivered growth-focused projects like mobile number authentication, referral system, mobile funnel optimization, product, and discovery localization, translations systems, personalized recommendations system, SEO, etc. Prior to his current role, Shivam worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Quizizz, where he was a part of the Platform team. He worked on highly available and high traffic databases, scaling them to ~100M writes a day and horizontally scaling high traffic dispatch socket servers with requests up to 5000+ RPS and peak 250k concurrent users. Shivam also built high-quality APIs with strict types, domain-driven, and event-driven architecture. Shivam holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una. He also completed his High School education from La Martiniere College. Shivam's tech stack includes Java, Javascript, AWS, Mobile, Backend, Infra, Redis, MongoDB, NodeJS, Typescript, Microservices, Computer Vision, RabbitMQ, NoSQL, Elastic Search, Postgres, and UI. Overall, Shivam is a highly motivated and skilled Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality work. He is passionate about solving complex problems and building scalable solutions that make a difference.