Prashant Shinde — AI-native full-stack engineer

Highlights

What I'm about

I think in systems, not just screens

From high-level architecture to low-level design, I break ambiguous problems into clean, scalable solutions — leading design reviews, setting the technical direction, and mentoring engineers to ship with confidence.

AI-driven dev

Claude Code & agentic workflows, daily.

Performance

Profiling, GraphQL & Core Web Vitals.

Core stack

React · TypeScript · GraphQL · Node.js

7 years across Atlassian, PayPal & Barclays — frontend depth, full-stack range.

Career

Where I've worked

Software Engineer · Atlassian

Jun 2025 — Present

Bengaluru, India (Remote) · Jira

Spearheading Rovo AI experiences in Jira Service Management — AI-powered workflows in a flagship ITSM product, from concept to production with product, design & platform teams.
Profiled and eliminated GraphQL over-fetching on Jira Issue View — the most-used page in Jira — cutting load time by 650ms and earning leadership recognition.
Practice AI-driven development daily with Claude Code and agentic workflows for prototyping, refactoring, test generation and review.

Software Engineer · PayPal

May 2021 — May 2025

Bengaluru, India (Remote) · PayPal Credit

Led UX design & development for PayPal Working Capital, a financing product lending to ~1.1M merchants across 6 countries, with ≥95% test coverage and accessibility built in.
Integrated Open Banking APIs to boost approved loan amounts 2×, adding ~$1.8M/month of incremental loan origination; expansion to France & Netherlands drove ~$3.8M/month more.
Built microfrontend fragments for PayPal's merchant home using React, Node.js & Webpack Module Federation — one-third of total traffic, 22% conversion. 2× PayPal Spot Award.

Software Engineer · Barclays

Oct 2018 — Apr 2021

Pune, India · US Consumer Bank

Led frontend for a data-science marketplace portal giving scientists and governance teams access to datasets, models, ownership and controls. Promoted to Senior in record time.
Owned UI for Electron.js MS Office plugins syncing Outlook with Barclays CRM; single-handedly completed the Angular 6→10 upgrade.
Built components for the internal Angular Component Library and automated its release with Gulp + TeamCity, cutting deployment time by 80%. Global Recognition Award 2020.

Selected work

Things I've built

Fynkestra

A goal-based personal finance app mapping every holding — stocks, mutual funds, FDs, PPF, real estate — to a life goal, with real-time net worth, category split and goal progress. Built end-to-end with Claude Code; privacy-first and read-only.

ReactViteClaude Code

Live site ↗

Apcensys Equity Research

Planned, designed and built the complete technology for a web-based equity-research platform from scratch for an emerging fintech startup.

ReactNode.jsExpressMongoDB

Live demo ↗

Healr

An emotional-wellbeing mobile app built for a client in React Native — therapist appointment booking, in-app chat, and integrated payments.

React NativePaymentsChat

Gesture-controlled Rock Paper Scissors

A real-time multiplayer game that reads your hand gesture from the webcam using a k-nearest-neighbors model, paired with sockets for fast head-to-head play.

AngularTensorFlow.jsSocket.io

YouTube ↗GitHub ↗

Toolkit

Skills & tools

AI-assisted development

Claude CodeAgentic workflowsPrompt & context engineeringAI prototypingLLM tooling

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSS / SCSSJavaSQL

Frameworks & libraries

ReactGraphQLAngularNode.jsExpress.js

Tools & platforms

AWS EC2DockerWebpackViteJenkinsGit

Performance & quality

Web performanceGraphQL optimisationAccessibilityUnit & integration testing

Databases

MySQLMongoDB

Recognition

Awards & achievements

2 Big Kudos & 10+ KudosAtlassian

2× Spot Award & 10× Bravo recognitionsPayPal

Global Recognition Award 2020Barclays

Finalist, PayPal Global Credit HackathonRunner-up, team of 4

MERN-stack bootcamp instructor & coding mentorVIIT College · Newton School

2× semi-finalist, TechGig Code Gladiators2019 & 2020