Shirin Shaista Ahmed

Overview

Currently at Dream11, where I lead real-time systems with a team of 14. Shipped 11 launches on the real-time team without a rollback. Before that: InMobi and McKinsey & Company. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2025 - Present
   Dream11 · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 562ms to 169ms.
   • Wrote the WebSockets service that now handles 90 million requests a day.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Dec 2021 - Jul 2025
   InMobi · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 6.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
   McKinsey & Company · 2 yr · Contract · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped 12 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
   • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Software Engineer

   Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
   Walmart Global Tech · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped 30 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
   TCS · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 31% in two quarters.

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Education

1. Srishti Manipal Institute

   B.Des, Computer Engineering
   2012 - 2016