Shovel Company

Shovel Company is on a mission to build tools to improve internet infrastructure.Digital identity is rapidly changing. Every user and agent will have their own cryptographic keys.At Shovel, we are building Decentralised Contact Network (DCN) as social graph infrastructure for
building rich personalised applications like Rolodex to accelerate this change
towards decentralised identity.

Shobhit

Shobhit Srivastava, CEO and Co-founder, is a seasoned entrepreneur.He led his previous startup, to a successful acquisition by Gojek in 2015. During his time as SVP Engineering at Gojek, he oversaw its 1000x growth.Shobhit is active in the cloud community, running DevOpsDays India for multiple years.He is passionate about technology and how it shapes the future, and his favourite topics are complex networks and distributed systems.

Shobhit

Rishi Ayyer leads community and operations at Shovel.Previously he was a manager at McKinsey driving commercial growth work across strategy, pricing, distribution and branding for multiple clients.He graduated from the Indian School of Business in 2016 after a short stint in sales.He is a history & culture buff and a community builder who loves meeting new people.

Shobhit

Prashant Mittal leads tech and product.He was head of the observability platform at Gojek, leading a team to build monitoring for Gojek’s applications and infrastructure.Prashant and Shobhit are co-authors of CNCF’s observability white-paper published in 2021.Prashant is a true builder at heart with a keen eye for design. He is passionate about building beautiful and scalable software products.