SHREYASR K
The EngineerBehind the Stack
I'm a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, building the distributed infrastructure that powers enterprise software at scale.
Before Salesforce, I spent three years at PayPal engineering high-scale microservices in Go and Python on GCP — systems that process hundreds of millions of daily transactions while maintaining tight SLA guarantees.
I've been deeply into distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and applied ML across companies like Vymo, Ittiam Systems, and through graduate research at Northeastern University, where I graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
Outside engineering, I run a 200K+ subscriber YouTube channel helping F1 visa holders, CS students, and early-career engineers navigate tech careers in the US.
CareerTimeline
10 years of shipping — from Bangalore to Boston to San Francisco. Click any entry to expand.
Salesforce
- ›Cloud-native platform engineering for enterprise scale
- ›Distributed systems infrastructure and reliability
- ›Building the next generation of enterprise software
PayPal
- ›High-scale microservices in Go and Python on GCP
- ›Designed event-driven architecture serving global payments
- ›Built real-time analytics and cost optimization platform
- ›Maintained p95 latency under SLA across all services
Northeastern University
- ›4.0 GPA — full merit scholarship
- ›Teaching Assistant: Human-Computer Interaction + Software Engineering
- ›Research focus: Computer Vision, Mixed Reality, XR Systems
Vymo
- ›Distributed ML-driven microservices for sales intelligence
- ›Apache Kafka event pipelines at scale
- ›AWS Lambda serverless functions for ML inference
- ›Led ML lead scoring — integrated into 50+ enterprise accounts
Ittiam Systems
- ›Computer Vision & ML platform on Google Cloud
- ›Java Spring Boot microservices + GKE deployments
- ›Built real-time video analytics pipeline
PES University
- ›Bachelor's in Information Science & Engineering
- ›Data Science Intern at InMobi — ads-serving ML pipelines
- ›Android Dev Intern at Quicken — mobile payments feature
Skills &Technologies
★ = Primary strength · Hover any skill to see proficiency.
Projects &Deployments
Side projects, experiments, and community work outside the day job.
SmrtGov
Civic tech for citizen engagement
A civic tech platform enabling citizens to file, track, and escalate government service complaints. Built with PHP and Bootstrap with a focus on accessibility and broad geographic reach.
Gender Classification via CV
Computer vision research at Northeastern
Research project applying convolutional neural networks and facial feature extraction for demographic classification. Explored fairness tradeoffs and dataset bias in production ML systems.
YouTube &Community
Building a community of engineers and CS students who want to grow their careers in the US tech industry.
@shreyasrk
ACTIVE CHANNELTech career guidance, system design, F1 visa navigation, and engineering deep-dives for the global developer community.
The most-watched series on the channel. Practical guidance for international students navigating US work authorization.
Real architectures — distributed queues, payment rails, caching layers — explained from production experience, not textbooks.
How to break into FAANG+, navigate promotions, build your personal brand, and make the most of your first decade in tech.
From agentic workflows to production LLM integration — covering what actually works vs what's overhyped.
Let's BuildSomething
Open to senior engineering roles, consulting, advisory, and collaboration on interesting distributed systems problems.
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