Shashank C M
Engineer dedicated to transforming complex ideas into production-ready APIs and systems that scale effortlessly in dynamic environments.
Backend engineer with 6+ years of experience building distributed systems and cloud-native microservices at scale. My foundation is in high-traffic production architecture — payment systems serving millions of users, compliance-grade APIs, and zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines. Over the past year I've deliberately shifted toward AI-native backend engineering: building platforms where LLM capabilities are infrastructure-layer components, not UI features. I treat AI tooling as an engineering multiplier and I'm most energized building the serving layers that enable AI-driven user experiences to work reliably at scale.
Previously at Amazon, Abbott, Liberty Defense, Allstate.
Experience
- 2024 — Pres
Java Developer
Abbott Labs
Building and maintaining distributed FTPC server infrastructure for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) across regulated global production sites — applying production-grade reliability and compliance discipline to critical manufacturing data pipelines.
- 2021 — 2023
Software Engineer
Amazon
Architected and launched a large-scale installments payment platform in the CA marketplace, serving 5M+ customers and generating over $500M in revenue within six months — owned end-to-end from design through production monitoring.
- 2021
Software Engineer
Liberty Defense
Designed a Spring-based backend API layer enabling real-time communication between ML inference services and airport security hardware — early hands-on exposure to the challenges of productionizing model-serving workflows.
- 2017 — 2019
Software Engineer
Allstate
Built backend services for Azure-hosted automated payment workflows, reducing production defects by 15% through structured testing frameworks and Swagger-integrated API validation.
Education
- 2019 — 2021
M.S., Computer and Information Science
University of Florida
- 2013 — 2017
B.E., Computer Science
Malnad College of Engineering