Founder Profile
Shivaas Gulati
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Shivaas Gulati possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply technical background in advanced software engineering, complex systems architecture, and massive-scale algorithmic development. Having successfully graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and operating as a fiercely skilled backend developer across major tech ecosystems, this intensely technical foundation provided the exact engineering mastery required to successfully co-found the incredibly massive Remitly platform.
Founding Story
Shivaas Gulati is a highly astute software engineer, fiercely visionary digital operator, and the profoundly influential technical co-founder fundamentally responsible for programming the absolute earliest structural backend of the massive Remitly global payments platform. Operating as an incredibly talented developer alongside Oppenheimer and Hug in 2011, Gulati aggressively spearheaded the highly complex early architectural prototyping required to make incredibly dense global banking logistics easily manageable via a simple mobile application. By relentlessly building highly secure, incredibly scalable API pipelines that could instantly verify identities and route funds across highly regulated international borders, his absolutely rigorous technical execution completely guaranteed the platform's early technological dominance. His massive engineering legacy permanently established the technical foundation of the multi-billion dollar Remitly ecosystem.