Platform & solution architecture
System design for multi-platform products, secure payment flows, API gateways, high-availability services, and integrations.
I’m Vaibhav Shakya — an architect-focused engineer with 8+ years across fintech, mobile, and backend systems. I connect system design with hands-on delivery, from early technical decisions through production.
I work across product, engineering, and operations to turn requirements into systems that teams can build, run, and evolve.
System design for multi-platform products, secure payment flows, API gateways, high-availability services, and integrations.
Security-first engineering for KYC, lending, merchant and settlement journeys, with encryption, integrity controls, and fraud detection.
Native Android and iOS, React Native, Flutter, Node.js and Java — with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainable systems.
Architecture reviews, technical designs and RUDs, estimation, cross-team alignment, code quality, and mentoring.
Practical experience with AWS, CI/CD, observability, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and the operating needs of production services.
Experience integrating conversational AI into mobile products and continuing to build depth in agentic AI systems.
A selection of architecture, engineering, and product work across fintech, SaaS, commerce, and creator tools.
Worked across KYC, lending, merchant lifecycle, settlement, and custom POS integrations on a platform supporting millions of transactions. Recent backend work includes a product price-matching service and operational workflows.
Co-founded Mn Labs and led technical direction and full-cycle product development across 20+ Android and web applications, while partnering with clients and building distributed teams.
Co-founded HyperHut and built its e-commerce platform with a Node.js backend, web frontend, payment gateway integration, and order workflows — alongside early growth and marketing work.
Led the end-to-end development of ProjektOne, from platform architecture and backend APIs through frontend experience and deployment pipelines.
Building Node.js and MongoDB services, improving merchant and operations workflows, and developing secure backend capabilities for high-volume payment platforms.
Delivered Android, iOS, and React Native applications for KYC, lending, onboarding, and payments; led custom POS integrations and security improvements.
Built Flutter features and improved real-time communication reliability across matchmaking and pet-transport applications.
Owned architecture, stack decisions, product delivery, client solutioning, and distributed team development across a portfolio of applications.
Built the e-commerce product and payment/order workflows, and contributed to early customer acquisition and growth.
System design, multi-platform architecture, secure payments, API gateways, high availability, observability, performance, and secure SDLC.
MBA in Entrepreneurship and B.E. in Computer Science, with continued learning across cloud, cybersecurity, project delivery, and agentic AI.

Architecture for governed AI execution in financial workflows.
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Least-privilege design for autonomous financial systems.
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Planning for cyberattacks, outages, dependencies, and recovery.
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