# Shikhar Srivastava

> SWE @ Plaid

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

Passionate about software, product, and data.

## Work Experience
### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ American Express
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
- Upgraded Global Financial Transactions API, fixing backend errors and optimizing functionality
- Developed and deployed Security Util REST API for retrieving security tokens and providing access to additional APIs for backend testing (Spring, Maven, Postman, Openshift)

### Software Engineering Intern @ VisualizeROI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Independently managed 3 client projects by developing personalized web applications (Javascript) that automated their sales cycle
- Regularly met clients to plan projects by identifying project requirements, clarifying action items and specifying timelines
- Documented and published an external and internal knowledgebase, which I utilized to lead onboarding

### Data Science Intern @ adELA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Prague, Czech Republic
- Constructed a Graph Database (GDB) in Neo4J to visualize the value-added chain in the digital advertisement market place
- Utilized GDB to attract specific clients by offering direct chains which decrease costs and latency while increasing transparency

### Operations Engineering Intern @ Concord Servicing Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Scottsdale, Arizona
- Recommended own project to construct a script that replaced and optimized the sorting process for their loan validation services
- Created script utilizing Python with Selenium to completely automate three days of employee work each month
- Updated 30+ company core processes, ran 300+ custodials and audited 50+ client accounts through company’s storage application

### Product Development Intern @ Concord Servicing Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Scottsdale, Arizona
- Presented to VPs about optimization recommendations via automating and pricing their customer request services
- Utilized R/Excel to analyze over 600k supporting data points and create a structure of hierarchal categorization and a pricing mechanism that balanced client’s portfolio size with average employee time required to provide customer request servicing

### Head Lab Instructor @ Southwest Speech and Debate Institute
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Tempe, AZ
- head lab instructor of 30+ students for the two-week policy program of a local speech and debate camp designed for affordability
- worked with each student by assessing comprehension of each topic weekly based on practice speeches/drills/assignments and created an individualized schedule for future work so each student would have a curriculum best suited to them
- created and delivered 20+ lectures about argument construction, logical thinking, and oratory skills while integrating feedback


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Data Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Economics
Charles University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shikhar--srivastava
- Website: https://shikhar.live

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Last updated: 2026-04-05