I'm Shashidhar Katkam, a Senior / Lead Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining production-grade SaaS platforms. I founded Cabinzo and SendShortly, where I led end-to-end delivery of web, mobile, cloud, payments, analytics, and real-time systems. I’m an AWS Serverless specialist with hands-on expertise across Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, EventBridge, SQS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless Framework. I’m a proven architect of microservices and event-driven systems, delivering high-throughput APIs, real-time workflows, background processing, and distributed architectures using Redis, SQS, and EventBridge. I have a strong full-stack and mobile background with ReactJS, TypeScript, Next.js, React Native (iOS & Android), and experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis for secure multi-tenant SaaS. I own the complete SDLC — architecture, development, CI/CD, deployment, security, and production operations, delivering highly available, compliant, and cost-optimized systems.

Shashidhar Katkam

I'm Shashidhar Katkam, a Senior / Lead Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining production-grade SaaS platforms. I founded Cabinzo and SendShortly, where I led end-to-end delivery of web, mobile, cloud, payments, analytics, and real-time systems. I’m an AWS Serverless specialist with hands-on expertise across Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, EventBridge, SQS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless Framework. I’m a proven architect of microservices and event-driven systems, delivering high-throughput APIs, real-time workflows, background processing, and distributed architectures using Redis, SQS, and EventBridge. I have a strong full-stack and mobile background with ReactJS, TypeScript, Next.js, React Native (iOS & Android), and experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis for secure multi-tenant SaaS. I own the complete SDLC — architecture, development, CI/CD, deployment, security, and production operations, delivering highly available, compliant, and cost-optimized systems.

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I’m Shashidhar Katkam, a Senior / Lead Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining production-grade SaaS platforms. I founded Cabinzo and SendShortly, where I led end-to-end delivery of web, mobile, cloud, payments, analytics, and real-time systems. I’m an AWS Serverless specialist with hands-on expertise across Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, EventBridge, SQS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless Framework.

I’m a proven architect of microservices and event-driven systems, delivering high-throughput APIs, real-time workflows, background processing, and distributed architectures using Redis, SQS, and EventBridge. I have a strong full-stack and mobile background with ReactJS, TypeScript, Next.js, React Native (iOS & Android), and experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis for secure multi-tenant SaaS. I own the complete SDLC — architecture, development, CI/CD, deployment, security, and production operations, delivering highly available, compliant, and cost-optimized systems.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Republic Services
January 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025
Led development of a cloud-native, AI-enabled waste management platform integrating real-time fleet telemetry, automated trash-dump detection, and advanced data processing to optimize operational efficiency. Built serverless microservices on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, EventBridge, SQS). Developed event-driven pipelines using SQS, SNS, and Kinesis for large-scale telemetry processing. Implemented Python Lambda pipelines for image/video processing and ML-based dump validation. Improved API performance by 40%+ via Redis caching and query optimization. Automated secure CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Checkov; established production observability with Splunk and CloudWatch. Migrated to a production-grade serverless architecture to support scalable, high-availability operations.
Senior Software Engineer at Carrier
March 1, 2023 - December 1, 2023
Delivered a cloud-native IoT platform for real-time temperature tracking of truck containers; enabled proactive alerts and operational analytics. Built high-performance APIs & ingestion pipelines with Node.js, Express, and DynamoDB. Designed event-driven architecture using SNS, SQS, and EventBridge for real-time alerts. Implemented serverless infrastructure with AWS Lambda & IaC, improving scalability and reducing costs. Developed React dashboards for real-time fleet insights and analytics. Implemented time-series pipelines using AWS Timestream & Glue. Achievements include real-time fleet visibility, improved response time, reduced costs, and high reliability for critical logistics operations.
Senior Software Engineer at Meluha Technologies
November 1, 2020 - March 1, 2023
Led development of a scalable Learning Management System supporting digital classrooms, assessments, analytics, and payments. Designed scalable backend APIs and GraphQL services supporting high user concurrency. Migrated data from DynamoDB to MongoDB to improve performance and maintainability. Built CI/CD pipelines and deployed on AWS Lambda, Fargate, EC2. Delivered responsive UI using React, Redux, Material UI. Impact: laid the foundation for Meluha LMS with AWS tech stack and React; led a 5-member team; improved system performance, scalability, and real-time analytics.
Software Engineer at Technovert
June 1, 2019 - August 1, 2020
Built enterprise-grade SharePoint intranet Saketa; developed reusable SPFx components and custom extensions; integrated SharePoint REST APIs and Azure AD authentication; integrated PowerApps and Power Automate to extend React-based SharePoint solutions with automated workflows and custom business forms; optimized performance and UX across SharePoint sites.
Trainee Software Engineer at Hofincons International
June 1, 2018 - June 1, 2019
Developed material catalog management system for SAP integration; built modular SPAs using Angular & React; developed scalable RESTful APIs with Node.js & Express; implemented authentication, validation, logging, centralized error handling; optimized React rendering performance and stabilized production workflows.
Trainee Software Engineer at FINS
May 1, 2016 - March 1, 2018
Financial Portfolio Management Platform: Built responsive UI and REST services; implemented JWT authentication and performance optimizations.
Intern Developer at Unicsol
June 1, 2015 - May 1, 2016
Internal Employee Tracking System: Developed HR management system; built interactive dashboards and UI workflows; integrated REST APIs and improved UX performance.
Senior Software Engineer at Carrier Lynx Fleet
March 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Delivered a cloud-native IoT fleet monitoring platform for real-time temperature tracking of truck containers. Built React dashboards and a modular micro-frontend UI with TypeScript and lazy loading; designed backend APIs in Node.js/Express and ingestion pipelines using SNS, SQS, and EventBridge. Implemented time-series data handling with AWS Timestream and Glue; deployed infrastructure via IaC.
Senior Software Engineer at MAcademy (Meluha Technologies)
November 1, 2020 - March 31, 2023
Led development of a scalable Learning Management System for digital classrooms, assessments, analytics, and payments. Owned admin UI foundation with React, TypeScript, Redux, and ESLint; built reusable components and a JSON-driven form validation utility. Designed GraphQL services and migrated data from DynamoDB to MongoDB to improve performance. Built CI/CD pipelines and deployed on AWS Lambda, Fargate, and EC2.
Software Developer at Unicsol
June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2016
Developed internal HR management system with interactive dashboards and REST API integration; improved UX performance and delivered end-to-end features.

Education

Master's Degree in Data Analytics at Webster University
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2025
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science at JNTUH, India
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2016

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Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services