About

Shivang Nagaria is a passionate and experienced software engineer with a track record of successfully bringing product ideas to life. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at apna, where he leverages his expertise to develop cutting-edge software solutions. Shivang is an alumnus of the prestigious IIIT-Hyderabad, where he earned his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science. Shivang has an impressive work history, having previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at interviewbit. During his time there, he led the Classroom Pod team, which focused on improving student engagement. He also ideated, led, and introduced gamification components to make learning fun and addictive, resulting in over 800 students exercising consistently for more than 30 days straight. Shivang oversaw the integration of Elastic Search to calculate student engagement on the platform and later expanded it to record time series data. He also played a significant role in building Scaler Academy from the ground up, where he led the team responsible for developing the entire platform used by over 10,000 students daily. Shivang's technical expertise is vast, with a strong focus on software engineering, Ruby, search, AWS, integration, Elastic Search, Redis, Javascript, Redux, UI, and Android. He has also built a Belong.co-like SaaS product for outbound hiring, which is being used by companies such as Expedia, Sprinklr, Zomato, ClearTax, and Myntra. Additionally, Shivang has written a service using AWS Lambda that processes resumes and hides all personally identifiable information, which is a vital part of a sourcing product that recruiters can use to search relevant resumes. Shivang is a team player who is heavily involved in hiring both full-time employees and interns and mentoring new hires. He has also done multiple deployment optimizations, bringing down deployment time by 60%. Shivang's passion for software engineering and his ability to bring product ideas to life make him an asset to any team.