Shalini Pyapali
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShalini Pyapali is a New York-based software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable back-end systems and developer tools. She specializes in Python ecosystems (Django, Flask, Pyramid) and Ruby on Rails, applying them across fintech, recruitment tooling, and education projects. Her career spans roles at Meta and Facebook, with impact at startups like Warbler Labs, Heron Finance, and Comun, and includes building a Python-based restaurant recommender system for Techtonica's curriculum. She is an active mentor and educator, contributing to Techtonica’s curriculum and teaching software engineering at Outco. A Hackbright alum with a UC Davis Biochemistry and Molecular Biology degree, she blends rigorous problem-solving with hands-on production delivery and a curiosity-driven approach to open-source work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of California, DavisFull Stack Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyMonta Vista High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
object-oriented-programming10
python10
data-structure10
algorithms9
ionic-framework6
android6
google-play-services6
javascript4
javascripts4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Techtonica/curriculum
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
This repo contains the curriculum of Techtonica, a free tech training program for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 15 pushes, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shalini's primary contribution is the implementation of a restaurant recommender system using Python. The commits show the development of classes for users, restaurants, tags, and ratings, along with methods for adding and filtering data. Key features include adding ratings, calculating average scores, and prioritizing restaurants, indicating a focus on the core backend logic. The code demonstrates object-oriented programming principles and data structure usage.
curriculumtechtonicajavascriptplacementwomen
spyapali/unlocking_intelligence
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Interesting coding challenges that can be attempted by engineers trying to learn technologies.
Contributions:8 PRs, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
engineerstechnologiesinteresting
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