Shalini Khanna

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VP of Engineering at Opal Security | ex-Persistent Systems

Opal Security
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
18+ years experience
Srishti Manipal Institute
English, Hindi
Open to work
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Overview

I've spent 19 years on API platforms - first at Larsen & Toubro, now at Opal Security. Brought on-call pages for public API down from 30 a week to 3. Before that: Persistent Systems and Myntra. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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  • Roles in API platforms
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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Skills
OpenAPIRedisRESTDjango
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Backend Engineer roles in AI infrastructure - New Delhi or remote

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Fintech, AI infrastructure
Work mode
Remote
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Indian citizen
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on OpenAPI with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Pure people management

19 years in API platforms. Strongest at OpenAPI and Django. Available immediately.

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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    May 2022 - Present
    Opal Security · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Led the migration of 17 services to OpenAPI.
    • Moved 73% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2019 - May 2022
    Persistent Systems · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Sit on 2 boards.
    • Led or co-led 37 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Staff Backend Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Aug 2019
    Myntra · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 29 a week to 4.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Feb 2012 - Oct 2015
    Intuit · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 2.
    • Shipped 10 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Aug 2008 - Feb 2012
    Larsen & Toubro · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 32 a week to 3.

Projects

API platforms benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing OpenAPI and Redis on real workloads.

Open-source OpenAPI toolkit
2024

A small library for API platforms that 620 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Srishti Manipal Institute
    B.Des, Information Technology
    2002 - 2006

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