Shivam Ratnani — Forward Deployed Engineer
ScrollForward Deployed Engineer · CollectWise · Manhattan, NY
Full-stack Forward Deployed Engineer with 2+ years building production systems at scale, from payment infrastructure processing $10M+ monthly to voice infrastructure carrying up to 1M AI calls a month. I help startups move fast without breaking things by architecting AI cloud-native solutions that handle real user load and real compliance constraints.
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Swift
- Java
- C#
- Kotlin
- SQL
- FastAPI
- Django
- Flask
- Node.js
- Next.js
- React
- SwiftUI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Supabase
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Fly.io
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- LiveKit
- Jambonz
- Retell AI
- Five9
- SIP
- HAProxy
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Vertex AI
- Grafana
- DataDog
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Currently in Manhattan, NY, working on:
- CollectWise · Forward Deployed Engineer, Founding
Payment, voice, and observability infrastructure across 20+ enterprise accounts
collectwise.com - Paradym · Co-Founder & CTO
Catching silent API failures for the forward deployed teams and agencies shipping them
paradym.space - Alura · Technical Advisor
Architecture and technical direction after shipping v0
alura.love
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Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison · BS, Computer Science & Data Science
Sep 2022 — May 2025
Experience
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Building something that needs to survive real users? Reach me at shiv@ratnani.org.
