Shrihari Shastry
Founder and fractional CTO; product & engineering leader
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Joined December 2025
Summary
Founder and product builder focused on freelancer workflows: Shrihari founded Lancers Club to simplify freelancers' and small teams' non-core tasks (contracts, invoicing, payments, taxation) and reduce the operational overhead of independent professionals. medium+1
Fractional CTO and startup technical advisor: Co-founded ProfoundIQ to provide on-demand CTO services, technical due diligence and MVP/product leadership to early-stage startups on a subscription/consulting model. yourstory+1
Experienced engineering leader with banking and data systems background: Worked in engineering and risk decision systems roles at Barclays and technical roles at Oracle and iQuanti, bringing domain experience in financial systems and data engineering. saleshandy+1
Practitioner-writer on product, systems and leadership: Regularly publishes articles and system-design posts (Medium and DEV) sharing practical guidance on product documentation, hiring, system design and tech leadership. medium+1
Work
Education
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Writing
AI-Driven Organization — food for thought
September 1, 2024A Medium post exploring the idea of modeling an organization as an AI/LLM-driven single organism and considerations around organisational representation.
System Design — Credit Card Application Decisioning
July 1, 2024A Medium article that outlines system design considerations for building credit card application decisioning systems for banks, covering architecture and components.
Hi, I'm Shrihari Shastry
January 1, 2017An introductory post on the DEV community where the author introduces himself, his interests in web/search/distributed computing, and availability for collaborations.