Software Engineer Cupertino, CA (Bay Area)

Shatayu Thakur

3+ years of experience · FinTech / Insurance · EdTech

I build distributed full-stack systems, agentic AI pipelines, and data infrastructure, with a UI/UX foundation that keeps what I ship genuinely usable.

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Shatayu Thakur, MS graduate, San Jose State University

Work Experience

0.0 Years of Experience

Four roles, one throughline: ship things that work and hold up. Tap a card for the full story.

Education

Academic background

Featured Work

Projects I'm proud of

Selected work across agentic AI, distributed systems, and data engineering. Tap a card for the full case study.

Creative Edge

Proficient in Adobe XD & Figma

Before full-stack engineering, I cut my teeth prototyping interfaces. As a UI/UX intern I designed and animated high-fidelity flows in Adobe XD for an entrepreneur networking app, iterating with stakeholders to cut onboarding flow-completion time by 20%. That instinct for interaction design and usability now shapes how I build and review software.

UI/UX Prototype Reel

A walkthrough of high-fidelity, animated Adobe XD prototypes: onboarding flows, redesigns, and interaction studies.

Amazon: Dark Theme Concept

A dark-mode reimagining of the Amazon mobile shopping experience.

Amazon: Filter Redesign

A streamlined product-filtering interaction to reduce taps-to-result.

Windows: Default Window States

An interaction study of default, hover, and active window state transitions.

Off the Clock

Beyond Code

The other things that shape how I work.

Electronic music production

I'm a passionate electronic music producer and run a YouTube channel sharing song remakes and breakdowns. It's a hobby that blends technical precision with creativity, the same combination I bring to engineering problems.

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Design & branding

On my institute's branding team, I designed posters, brochures, and social content for campus events, sharpening my eye for clean, user-focused design.

Event email poster design Event brochure design

Professional-grade cricket

Discipline, teamwork, and strategic thinking, qualities I carry into every project I take on.

Photography & cinematography

Framing, light, and pacing, a visual eye that carries over into how I think about interfaces.

Cars & stick shifts

A soft spot for manual transmissions, mechanical precision makes them fun.

Toolset

What I build with

Languages
PythonJavaScriptJavaSQLBash
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBCassandraRedis
Frontend
HTMLCSSBootstrapReact / Redux
Frameworks & Runtime
Node.jsExpressSpring BootFastAPIWebSocketsAWS
AI / ML / LLM
RAG / GraphRAGVector DBsLangChainLangGraphLangSmithPyTorchLoRA
Data Engineering
KafkaJMSAirflowdbtSnowflakeSpark
Data Analysis
PandasNumPyTableauPower BI
DevOps
DockerKubernetesCI/CDTerraform
Observability & Practices
Prometheus / GrafanaREST APIsTestingAgile / JiraMicroservices
Design
Adobe XDFigmaPrototyping
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2025)

Let's build something.

I'm looking to contribute to ambitious engineering problems, especially where AI, data systems, and real product impact intersect.

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