Shubham Rai

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Shubham Rai.

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Currently exploring building scalable, full-stack, AI-native solutions.

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About Me

I'm a Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of building scalable systems and shipping products users love. Currently at Qualcomm, I architect cloud-native simulation platforms on AWS, designing extensible systems that serve 30+ engineers and dispatch ~30,000 simulation jobs monthly.

Before Qualcomm, I spent two years at Wells Fargo driving critical migrations — from modernizing legacy IBM DataPower services to Spring Boot microservices handling 30M+ monthly transactions, to boosting test coverage from 20% to 95% across entire service fleets.

But what defines me isn't just engineering — it's an ownership mindset. I founded Zuggus, a product discovery platform, and spent a year doing everything: writing code, closing sales, talking to brands, designing UX, and scaling to 4,000+ products. That experience shaped how I think about software — always with the end user and the business in mind.

Right now, I'm focused on building scalable, full-stack, AI-native solutions — blending deep systems thinking with the emerging power of LLMs and agentic workflows.

0+ Years Experience
0M+ Monthly Txns Handled
0K Jobs / Month
0+ LeetCode Solved

The Founder Chapter

Zuggus.com

Founder & Lead Architect · Feb 2025 – Dec 2025

A fullstack product discovery platform — built from 0 to 1, scaled to 4,000+ active products with sub-100ms semantic search.

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Architecture

Designed the entire stack — Next.js frontend, Java/Spring Boot backend, Python FastAPI services on GCP with high availability.

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Search Engine

Built a semantic search engine with OpenSearch, cache-aside patterns, and data partitioning for blazing-fast relevance discovery.

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Sales & Partnerships

Led brand outreach and sales execution end-to-end — from cold outreach to onboarding brands onto the platform.

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Product & UX

Owned the full product lifecycle — user research, UX design, feature prioritization, and iterative shipping.

"Building Zuggus taught me that great software isn't just about clean code — it's about understanding users, closing deals, and making hard trade-offs every single day."

Experience

Software Engineer

Qualcomm · Hyderabad, India

Jun 2025 – Present
  • Architected a cloud-native simulation platform on AWS using Spring Boot; designed an extensible relational schema and modular monolith for scalable onboarding of OEM tools.
  • Led storage migration to Amazon FSx; built REST APIs for simulation lifecycle, infra orchestration, and platform administration.
  • Owned and extended a Java distributed scheduler on EC2, dispatching ~30,000 simulation jobs/month with high reliability.
  • Designed an AI-powered versioning & release notes system using LiteLLM and Claude API, automating changelog generation from Git history.
  • Drove adoption of Temporal workflow orchestration for multi-stage simulations with retry strategies and failure recovery.
  • Established centralized observability (logging, metrics, alerting) and drove unit test coverage gains across a 30+ engineer org.

Software Engineer

Wells Fargo · Hyderabad, India

Aug 2023 – Jun 2025
  • Led migration from legacy IBM DataPower to Spring Boot microservices, driving features for 30M+ monthly transactions across 10+ ledger systems.
  • Built loan workflow orchestration services from scratch, replacing legacy JBPM workflows; owned cross-team coordination.
  • Delivered React.js/TypeScript features including a WCAG booking interface and internal PDF tool for 200+ users.
  • Led migration of 10+ services from Java 11 to 17 (30% efficiency boost); drove test coverage from 20% to 95%.
  • Designed system-wide RBAC and rate limiting; resolved critical production bugs, achieving 15% infra cost reduction.

Software Engineer Intern

Wells Fargo · Hyderabad, India

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Refactored inter-microservice communication in a high-throughput event pipeline, delivering a 10x throughput improvement.
  • Built a real-time stock analytics pipeline using GCP Pub/Sub, Node.js, and Python, processing 10M+ daily events.
  • Built central observability with Prometheus and Grafana, saving ~3 hours/week in debugging time.

Skills & Technologies

⌨️ Languages

Java Python JavaScript TypeScript C/C++ SQL Bash

⚙️ Backend & Systems

Spring Boot Microservices System Design REST APIs Kafka Redis Temporal GraphQL

🎨 Frontend

React.js Next.js TypeScript HTML/CSS Responsive Design

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

AWS Lambda EC2 S3 IAM FSx CloudWatch VPC GCP Pub/Sub Docker Prometheus Grafana CI/CD

🗄️ Databases & Search

PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle MongoDB OpenSearch Elasticsearch

🤖 AI & LLMs

Claude API LiteLLM GitHub Copilot OpenAI API Agentic Workflows Prompt Engineering RAG

Education & Achievements

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

MNIT Jaipur · Rajasthan, India

Graduated Aug 2023 GPA: 8.9 / 10
Data Structures & Algorithms Object Oriented Programming DBMS Operating Systems Computer Networks
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LeetCode Top 8%

1,500+ problems solved

🥇

Oppo Inspiration Cup

Finalist

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Hackon with Amazon

Semifinalist

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Lowe's House of Code

Finalist

Let's Connect

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, or just geeking out about system design and startups.

raishubham675@gmail.com github.com/grininja linkedin.com/in/shubhamr-rai +91 951-966-5131