# Shaneel Sharan

> Senior Software Engineer at Mercury

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shaneel

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Mercury
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Co-Founder and Mentoring Lead @ Happy Era
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Bruno, California, United States
- Mentoring students with no prior CS degree or industry experience in fundamental CS concepts, including data structures, database design, API design, full-stack architecture, algorithms, and testing principles.
- Created a custom Poker game assignment for students to demonstrate key principles of React development like props, component design, custom hooks, and global state management.
- Currently developing a full-stack application that streamlines the admissions and enrollment processes for preschools, powered by Node.js, Express, TypeScript, MongoDB, and React.
development like props, component design, custom hooks, and global state management.

### Software Engineer @ Zipline
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | South San Francisco, California, United States
- Maintained a full-stack app with a Python/Flask/PostgreSQL backend and React/TypeScript frontend that visualizes drones in flight and provides real-time airspace updates, powered by Kafka and Websockets.
- Implemented the ability to view 20+ types of detailed diagnostic data from prototype drones, which required close coordination with other engineering teams to ensure the data was available to consume via Kafka.
- Organized a weekly meeting with 15+ stakeholders from various internal teams to coordinate on requirements, answer questions about upcoming features, and demo new functionality in the app.

### Software Engineering Manager @ Lever
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Led a team of 8 engineers through a company acquisition, assigning technical leads for the team, ensuring a strong technical foundation for projects, and delegating engineers and resources to adjacent teams.
- Coordinated with R&D leadership to set realistic expectations for 2 compliance-related projects, allowing the team to deliver high-impact improvements to Lever’s GDPR compliance functionality in only 6 months.
- Built a scalable event-based Node.js task with 1000+ lines of code to mark candidate data as anonymizable for GDPR compliance purposes, backed by a comprehensive integration test suite using Chai/Mocha.

### Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Lever
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Facilitated sprint reviews and retros, wrote implementation specs, and taught best practices for the company’s tech stack: TypeScript, CoffeeScript, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Derby.js, Elasticsearch, Chai, Mocha, Sinon.
- Spearheaded a project allowing companies to self-administer their candidate hiring pipelines, resulting in a ~75% decrease in customer support tickets while maintaining a 99.9% backend task success rate.
- Hand-selected by the CEO to overhaul Lever’s resume parsing functionality by integrating with a new vendor API, implementing Redis-backed rate limiting, and creating Kibana dashboards for key parsing metrics.
- Worked closely with the infrastructure team to set up an EU Data Center, retrofitting existing Node.js code to allow it to interface with multiple AWS regions.

### Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Lever
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Revamped Lever’s access control system for sensitive candidate data by adding ~10 new granular permission levels, refactoring critical access-related MongoDB queries, and creating a new UI for configuring permissions.
- Prototyped, scoped, and headed the delivery of the Fast Resume Review feature in only 3 months using
TypeScript/MongoDB/Derby.js, allowing customers to accelerate decisions on new applicants by over 5x time.
- Co-founded a TypeScript working group to develop internal tooling like Bash scripts to automate the
conversion of legacy CoffeeScript code to TypeScript and educated engineers on how to use these new tools.

### Software Engineer @ Lever
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Spartan Software, Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Contributed new features and enhancements to the company product; implemented an activity feed, email notification system, and asset management system using Java, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Backbone.js, and SQL.
- Streamlined the localization of 10,000+ documents in a content management system (CMS) by building a custom Java and PostgreSQL-based microservice while solving data synchronization and concurrency issues.
- Restructured a client’s localization tool by converting major sections of JavaScript code on the frontend to Java and SQL on the backend, resulting in a 20x performance gain.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shaneel-sharan

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Last updated: 2026-03-22