Govind Sharma

Mumbai, India
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Distributed systems, AI pipelines, and infrastructure ownership
Senior Backend Engineer

I design and scale backend systems for high-throughput products, combining system reliability with product impact.

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Govind Sharma

Backend Focused

Available for new opportunities

Featured metric

Revenue impact anchored by delivery across AI SaaS, platform systems, and production operations.

$2M+

ARR impact

10,000+

req/sec

100,000

concurrent users

1M+

document RAG stacks

1,000+

customer accounts

Career Journey

Founding Backend Engineer - Lead

Stamina.ioJun 2025 - PresentMumbai, India

AI-powered Sales + CRM + Marketing SaaS

Stamina.io logo
At Stamina.io, I designed Zara end-to-end with lead enrichment pipelines, structured LLM pitch generation, and agentic orchestration.
Built Twilio-integrated cold-calling architecture with webhook-driven call state, scaled to 200+ customers and 5,000+ calls/day.
Owned Kubernetes, CI/CD, and distributed backend services while scaling from $250K to $2M+ ARR in 9 months.
Engineered cold-email sequencing with automated follow-up flows, variant support, and deliverability optimisation.
Defined architecture standards, wrote RFC/TDDs, and built CRM backend models for multi-object relationships.

AI-Native Workflow

Claude Code, Cursor, and Antigravity are embedded in my daily build loop as force multipliers for speed, clarity, and execution quality.

Claude Code
Antigravity
Cursor
NotebookLM
GitHub Copilot
Codex
OpenClaw

Projects

Recommendations

What Colleagues Say

Colin Harman

Colin Harman

Colin managed Govind directly · July 3, 2025

Govind was an incredible asset on the Nesh team and a wonderful colleague to work with. He took full responsibility for every area that he worked on, and constantly provided us with true software engineering rigor: attacking tech debt, designing for maintainability, enhancing availability, and identifying risks long before they became production problems. I quickly found that Govind could take the thorniest, most confusing problems and return promptly with bulletproof forever solutions already implemented. He has a true engineer mindset, and in addition to his impressive skills he was a very positive presence on the team, leading by example and collaborating actively.

Change Order Reviews for Owners of Infrastructure Projects

Jai Jalan

Jai Jalan

Jai managed Govind directly · June 4, 2025

Govind gets things done, communicates well, and writes clean code. He has a positive attitude and makes it fun and easy to work with him. He also possesses strong problem solving skills and always gets things done. Happy to recommend him for software engineering related roles.

Founder & CEO — Better | Building & Scaling Software Products | Ex-Microsoft | IIT Alum

Siddhartha Gupta

Siddhartha Gupta

Siddhartha worked with Govind on the same team · May 2, 2025

I'm excited to recommend Govind, who joined Nesh as a Full-Stack Developer and quickly became indispensable. Govind architected and shipped a suite of AI-powered agents — everything from product recommendation and comparison engines to account-planning and cross/upsell tools — that unlocked new revenue streams and delighted our customers. His deep technical chops let him move from concept to production in record time, and his clean, maintainable code kept our platform rock-solid.

Building AI for Manufacturing | Growth & Product at Docket | Founder of Nesh (Acquired)

Skills

Backend Core

Node.js
NestJS
Express
GraphQL
REST APIs
WebSocket
WebRTC signaling

Data and Storage

PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
BullMQ
Elasticsearch
pgvector
Prisma ORM

AI and Orchestration

RAG pipelines
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Azure OpenAI
OpenAI Assistants API
MCP servers
Agentic workflows

DevOps

Kubernetes
Docker
AWS
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Nginx
SonarQube
Datadog
Shell scripting

Integrations

Twilio
Stripe
Salesforce
Google Drive API
Amazon S3
Azure Blob Storage

Architecture

System Design
RFC Writing
Technical Design Docs
API Design
Scalable Architecture

Reliability

Observability
Monitoring
Alerting
Debugging Production Issues
Performance Profiling

Async Systems

Webhooks
Event-Driven Systems
Queues
Background Jobs

AI Product Engineering

Prompt Engineering
Tool Calling
Structured Outputs
LLM Evals
Guardrails

Security

Authentication
Authorization
OAuth
RBAC
Rate Limiting
Secrets Management

Database Design

Schema Design
Indexing
Query Optimization
Caching

AI Dev Tools

Claude Code
Antigravity
Cursor
NotebookLM
GitHub Copilot
Codex
OpenClaw

Testing

Jest
Swagger
Playwright

About

Beyond Engineering

A quick look at interests outside day-to-day engineering work.

Personal snapshot
Govind Sharma

Outside core engineering work, I enjoy travelling, training consistently for fitness, and building focused utility products. That mix keeps my product perspective practical and user-centered.

Travel

I like exploring new places and local cultures, which helps me think in terms of varied user contexts and communication styles.

Fitness

Structured gym routines shape how I approach execution: consistency, progressive improvement, and measurable outcomes.

Building Tools

I actively prototype utilities and SaaS ideas, including NexGymAI.com, to stay hands-on with product discovery and delivery.

Contact

Let's buildsomething strong.

Open to senior full-stack, frontend, and backend-leaning roles where product thinking, architecture, and delivery quality all matter. Also available for focused consulting engagements on product builds and engineering systems.