# Shubham Pahadia

> Senior Software Engineer at Nextdoor

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shubhampahadia

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Nextdoor
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Feed Infra, Content Distribution, Content Ingestion

### Backend Software Engineer (Surfer) @ Kyte
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Refactored a core service using Domain Driven Design principles that reduced daily error occurrences to effectively zero. 
              You can read more here: https://kyte.com/blog/executing-state-machine-transitions-with-pytransition
- Led cross-team project to build a stable production test environment to enhance developer experience, standardize product release protocol, and deprecate staging environment
- Built an Image Handling Lambda Adapter using serverless framework to resolve L2 Data Privacy issues
- Developed a dynamic pricing tool utilizing Temporal workflows and Segment to decrease operational cost of delivery by 5%
- Delivered an ad-hoc solution to help improve inventory accuracy from 70% to 93%

### Software Engineer @ Juniper
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Implemented different COS (Class-of-Service / Quality of service) features like scheduler, classifier, rewrite for new data plane software AFT (Advanced Forwarding Toolkit)
• Re-designed entire COS codebase using modular programming principles to take advantage of new EVO codebase
• Developed Google Tests for performance measurement of various Services using gRPC APIs
• Worked on MPLS, L3VPN, L2circuits protocols for control plane. 
• Implemented new features and enhanced existing features in network statistics

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View
- Developed automated test script infrastructure in Python for smoke and regression testing for system testers by effectively collaborating with cross functional groups
- Supervised Google Web Services test environment and infrastructure in order to help ensure accurate and reliable push of changes to google search engine
- Used Java Android UIAutomator framework to update front-end test scripts and designs that reduced flakiness issues and time required to test Google Feed on multiple platforms.

### Risk and Reliability Intern @ Baxter International Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Co-led a team of 5 for the analysis and transportation of multiple reliability test fixtures. Conducted gap 
analysis/calibration/validation/documentation test to save the company thousands of dollars 
- Demonstrated an ability to become versed in inexperienced subjects by quickly learning LabVIEW in order 
to implement various NI PXI modules to capture accurate data for proper performance of test fixtures
- Collaborated with a core team of seven to design a pump-manifold reliability test fixture

### Research Intern @ Penn State University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | State College, Pennsylvania Area
- Analyzed the Capacitor-Voltage characteristics of various MOSCAPS and MOSFETS to determine the
efficiency of the semiconductor device over time compared to previous models and industry standards
- Developed MATLAB programs to procure flat band voltages and threshold voltages from lab data
- Documented graphs and tables based on the data extracted utilizing Origin for presentation purposes


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29