Shubham Kumar

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Principal Engineer, Brightline Group - PostgreSQL · Redis · Django

Brightline Group
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
IIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

Currently at Brightline Group, where I work on API platforms. Built the experimentation framework 8 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with rate limiting and Python. I play football every Sunday.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

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CLI designPostgreSQLRESTDjangoRedisPythonrate limiting
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Open to advising Series A teams on Django

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developer infrastructure, Django, Python
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Engineers moving into leadership

17 years of API platforms. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKpostgresqlredisrate limiting
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Brightline Group · 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Led or co-led 14 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
    • Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Staff Backend Engineer
    Mar 2024 - Nov 2025
    Intel · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2021 - Mar 2024
    Zerodha · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 30% in two quarters.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
    American Express · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 13 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
    ICICI Bank · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 28 a week to 3.
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 4 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. IIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Mathematics
    2005 - 2009

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