Shubham Katta

Principal Software Engineer

Bengaluru, India

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About

I am a Principal Engineer with over 9.5 years of experience building data-intensive, secure enterprise systems at scale. Most recently at Cyble Inc., I joined as the 6th founding team member and built three products · Vision, Hawk, and TIP · from the ground up, shipping critical backends from zero to production in days. My work spans Python, Flask, FastAPI, Kafka, Celery, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, and GCP. I architected a full Threat Intelligence Platform in 25 days using LLM-accelerated development, engineered high-throughput APIs serving over 1 billion records with sub-second latency, and led a team of 9 engineers while contributing to ISO 27001 certification and achieving significant infrastructure cost savings.

What I'm looking for

Principal Engineer with 9 years building distributed backend systems at scale. Founding engineer at a cybersecurity startup where I architected three products from scratch, led a team of nine engineers, and shipped production systems handling billions of events daily. Deep expertise in Python, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and LLM integrations using OpenAI and Claude. Looking for a remote Staff or Principal Engineer role at a company where the problems are hard, ownership is real, and the team is small

Experience

Cyble Inc.

Principal Software Engineer

Cyble Inc.

Sep 2020 – Present

• Founding team member (6th hire) — shaped architecture, engineering culture, and hiring from day one across three products: Vision, Hawk, and TIP. • Architected Cyble TIP from scratch in 25 days — leveraging prompt engineering and LLM-accelerated development — enabling first enterprise pilots and unlocking new revenue streams. • Built Cyble Hawk MVP in 10 days, directly unblocking strategic government partnerships; owned product roadmap and stakeholder communications through GA. • Engineered high-throughput APIs querying 1B+ records with tight latency SLAs via index strategy, denormalized views, and read replicas. • Designed Kafka/Celery ingestion & enrichment pipeline with idempotent workers, retries, and DLQs; reduced manual operations hours by 75%. • Built correlation/knowledge-graph pipeline unifying signals from 30+ services for high-precision entity linking across threat intelligence feeds. • Reduced annual infra costs by $36K via TAXII server optimization, storage tuning, and intelligent job scheduling. • Implemented dark-web scraping framework and metadata schema that simplified indexing and accelerated analyst search performance. • Led a team of 9 engineers — hiring, mentorship, code review standards, trunk-based development, staging gates, and on-call playbooks. • Contributed to ISO 27001 certification by aligning architecture, logging, and data retention with compliance requirements.

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Engineer – Applications & Engineering

R1 RCM Global Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 2019 – Sep 2020

• Delivered features across US Healthcare / Revenue Cycle Management products (R1 Hub, QASuite) with rigorous quality gates and multi-environment validation (DEV → QAT → UAT → STAGE). • Introduced Jenkins + SonarQube CI/CD pipeline as a POC — later adopted team-wide — improving code coverage visibility and reducing vulnerability debt. • Practiced Agile ceremonies with cross-functional teams to reduce release risk and improve delivery predictability.

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Software Development Engineer

Calibrated Advisory, LLP

Dec 2016 – Aug 2019

• Built web applications across real estate, HRM, and health domains; gathered functional and non-functional requirements end-to-end. • Reduced client team size from 25 to 5 by automating workflows for a health & nutrition company via a custom Windows application. • Implemented LAMP and Microsoft stack platforms for billing, attendance, and in-house operations.

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Education

UPTU

UPTU

B.Tech · Computer Science

2012 – 2016

Skills

litellmlangchainfast apiflaskprompt engineeeringredislaraveldockerkafkaseleryeleastic searchmysqlpostgresmongodbc#codexclaude codegcpawspython

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Full professional proficiency)