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SHALINI KODALI

Austin,TX

Summary

  • Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience in engineering and leadership, combining long-term strategic vision with hands-on tactical execution. Over 10 years leading platform teams to drive developer productivity, AI-enabled workflows, and operational excellence.
  • Skilled in building and scaling high-performing teams, applying Agile practices to deliver innovative, user-centric, and high-quality solutions that create measurable business value.
  • Passionate about platform architecture, with deep expertise in cloud-native systems, microservices, and distributed, scalable applications.
  • Strong background in talent growth, mentorship, and cross-functional leadership, developing strategies that align technical execution with company goals.
  • Leadership Competencies : Strategic planning, Coaching and mentoring, Engineering design, Decision-making skills, Stakeholder communication, Vendor sourcing, Budget coordination, Prioritization
  • Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang, Ruby, Python, Docker, Redis, InfluxDB, Java, JSP, XML, SQL, JavaScript, , C++

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Chime Financials
08.2021 - Current
  • Pioneered the delivery of complete, cloud-based development environments for 400+ engineers, reducing onboarding time by 50% and improving daily workflow efficiency by 20%.
  • Led a team responsible for the Engineering Services Portal, driving a strategy that centralized access to critical tools and increased adoption rates by 35% through proactive user engagement and support.
  • Collaborated with product and platform teams to build and optimize infrastructure for AI-driven developer workflows, increasing developer productivity and supporting 5 new product launches.
  • Mentored and developed a team of 12+ engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and accountability that reduced project delivery times by 25%.
  • Managed all technical documentation and risk assessments, ensuring 100% compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Platform Engineering Manager

Red Ventures
10.2019 - 07.2021
  • Led a high-performing team of platform engineers responsible for managing and optimizing over 40 AWS accounts.
  • Reduced AWS costs by 25% by implementing strategic infrastructure optimizations, including migrating workloads to Fargate Spot and eliminating provisioned IOPs.
  • Architected and enforced an "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) model across the entire Financial Services Vertical, ensuring consistency and scalability.
  • Developed custom automation tools that increased developer and engineering productivity by streamlining workflows and troubleshooting processes.
  • Standardized and improved CI/CD pipelines across all financial services teams, enhancing deployment efficiency and reliability.
  • Technologies - AWS, Terraform, CircleCI, New Relic, DataDog, Atlantis, Go, PHP, React

Director of Engineering

Ultralinq Healthcare Solution
02.2018 - 09.2019
  • Led the engineering team through an 80% workforce reduction, successfully retaining talent and maintaining core operations during a critical period.
  • Revamped the existing AWS infrastructure, implementing numerous cost-cutting strategies that resulted in a 20% savings year-over-year.
  • Architected and executed the migration of the UK's Ultralinq deployment from a Hitachi data center to AWS cloud, reducing technical support tickets by 80% and cutting data center costs by 60%.
  • Simplified complex system designs by re-platforming from multiple technologies (Kafka, InfluxDB, GRPC) to a streamlined architecture using AWS SQS and Lambda, significantly improving maintainability.
  • Reworked pricing and revenue models, introducing new strategies that accelerated cash flow and improved customer acquisition rates.

Senior Software Engineer

Ultralinq Healthcare Solutions
08.2016 - 01.2018
  • Architected the migration of a monolithic PHP application to a containerized Python microservices architecture, improving system scalability and performance.
  • Led the implementation of a multi-phase Auth0 integration, reducing technical support tickets by 10% and improving user authentication workflows.
  • Established and enforced new REST API standards, improving code consistency and development efficiency across the engineering team.
  • Mentored junior developers on best practices for writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.
  • Technologies: Python, PHP, MySql, Django, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, influxDB, Sqlalchemy, AWS

Senior Consultant

I Cubed a KPIT company
04.2013 - 07.2016
  • ioneered and implemented a new hire training program that reduced time-to-bill by 67% (from 90 to 30 days), significantly increasing new hire productivity and revenue.
  • Led a mentorship program to improve collaboration and technical knowledge sharing across geographically dispersed teams.
  • Delivered comprehensive Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) services for global clients, including ABB, Raytheon, and GEHL.
  • Developed and customized solutions using Java/JEE, SOAP web services, and Oracle databases to meet client-specific needs for Windchill PDMLink.
  • Engineered custom loaders for the Windchill Bulk Migrator (WBM) to facilitate CAD and metadata migrations for major projects.

Software Engineer

Logikos Inc.

System Engineer

Excelon Corp

Application Systems Analyst

Qwest

Education

MSc - Computer and Information Science

Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Chime Financials
08.2021 - Current

Platform Engineering Manager

Red Ventures
10.2019 - 07.2021

Director of Engineering

Ultralinq Healthcare Solution
02.2018 - 09.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Ultralinq Healthcare Solutions
08.2016 - 01.2018

Senior Consultant

I Cubed a KPIT company
04.2013 - 07.2016

Software Engineer

Logikos Inc.

System Engineer

Excelon Corp

Application Systems Analyst

Qwest

MSc - Computer and Information Science

Cleveland State University

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