Summary
Shashank Yaduvanshi is a senior engineering leader who blends a unique background in institutional derivatives trading with a decade of experience building mobile payment and onboarding systems. After earning a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and working as a futures broker at Deutsche Bank, he pivoted to software—co-founding TextMyPA, developing Pukar, an SOS Android app tied into Indian police networks, and pursuing an MS in Computer Science at UIUC as a Siebel Scholar. He now leads Square’s mobile teams owning the core checkout experience, merchant onboarding, payments and KYC, having previously driven growth and onboarding work at Pinterest. With research publications, a Microsoft patent, and hands-on Android and full-stack product experience, he operates comfortably across research, product and production. Based in the NYC metro area, he combines trading-floor decisiveness with product-led engineering to deliver mission-critical commerce experiences.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
English, Hindi, German, Spanish