Shubham Nagota

Engineering leader who still ships.

AVP of Engineering at TransFi. I design payment platforms for 40+ countries and build the AI that runs on them.

Shubham Nagota, smiling, arms crossed, in a red shirt in front of a colourful mural

payments processed every month: $150M+
countries live: 40+
payment methods: 250+
building production systems: 9+ years

Selected work

TransFi

A payments API built like Lego

Small, reusable blocks that compose into full flows. New business use cases get assembled from what exists instead of built from scratch.

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end-to-end flows: 15; end-to-end flows
business use cases: 10+; business use cases
verticals: FX, Ramp, Gaming: 3; verticals: FX, Ramp, Gaming

1 week → 2 hours

Partner integrations, discovered by an agent

It reads partner docs, drafts the open questions and runs sandbox flows end to end.

10s → 0s

Zero-downtime ECS deploys

Fixed the ALB and shutdown timing behind an outage on every release.

3x orders

BYJU'S, monolith to events

Order and student domains on Kafka, plus $110K a month cut from AWS.

Live in production

DisplAI and the TransFi MCP server

Client engineers and their AI agents explore, call and integrate TransFi APIs from their own tools.

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Biggest team he has led?

At TransFi, Shubham leads engineering with 6 direct reports and oversees QA, security and DevOps across 7 regions, from SEA and LATAM to Europe and the US. At BYJU'S he led and mentored a team of 4 engineers through a monolith to microservices move. The site doesn't publish a total headcount.

Source: About; Selected work, BYJU'S, monolith to events

GenAI in production?

Yes. At TransFi he shipped DisplAI, an AI developer platform that answers support queries, calls TransFi APIs for developers and generates integration code, and the TransFi MCP server, which lets client teams and their AI agents integrate from their own tools. Both run with guardrails that enforce data isolation. An AI workflow also cut partner discovery from about a week to 2 hours.

Source: Selected work, DisplAI and the TransFi MCP server; Selected work, Partner integrations, discovered by an agent

Hardest reliability fix?

One he highlights: every ECS Fargate deploy at TransFi caused a ~10 second outage. He redesigned the release path with ALB connection draining, graceful shutdown and tuned health checks, taking downtime per deploy from about 10 seconds to zero.

Source: Selected work, Zero-downtime ECS deploys

Architecture experience?

He owns the architecture of TransFi's payments platform: a composable API whose building blocks compose into 15 end-to-end flows for 10+ use cases across FX, Ramp and Gaming, with dynamic routing across partners. Earlier, as Technical Architect at BYJU'S, he split a monolith into Kafka-based services, supporting 3x concurrent orders.

Source: Selected work, A payments API built like Lego; Selected work, BYJU'S, monolith to events

Building and writing

Open source

Quiver

The small utilities I reach for every day, in one webapp. Fully client-side, so nothing you paste leaves your browser.

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What I use

Claude Code
Cursor
TypeScript
Python
MongoDB
Redis
ECS Fargate
Terraform

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# Shubham Nagota

> Engineering leader in Dubai, UAE. AVP of Engineering at TransFi, building API-first payment platforms (40+ countries, 250+ payment methods, $150M+ monthly volume) and production GenAI.

## About
- 9+ years building production systems across payments, cybersecurity and ed-tech.
- Focus: API-first platform design, domain services, GenAI and MCP in production, reliability and DevSecOps.

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Nine years, six teams

2024 - now
TransFi
AVP of Engineering, previously Director
2023 - 2024
Reason Labs
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - 2023
BYJU'S
Technical Architect
2019 - 2020
Impact Analytics
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - 2019
General Electric
Software Engineer
2017 - 2018
Motorola Solutions
Software Engineer