Shyam Kalyan Sastry

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Staff Software Engineer at Ironbridge Financial · Search and ranking · Java, Scala

Ironbridge Financial
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
7+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Tamil
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Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Ironbridge Financial, where I work on the search team. Led the migration of 31 services to Scala. Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Mahindra Group and Salesforce.

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Skills
Pythonlearning to rankJavaLuceneScala

Experience

  1. Staff Software Engineer
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Ironbridge Financial · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Grew the search team from 3 to 21 engineers.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Aug 2025
    Mahindra Group · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Grew the search team from 3 to 16 engineers.
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Software Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
    Salesforce · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 19% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 40 a week to 1.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Mathematics
    2014 - 2018

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