Aakash Shah
Software Engineer at GitHub
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAakash Shah is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-facing infrastructure, currently working at GitHub in the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously served as a technical lead at Pivotal, driving major refactors and leading teams across projects like Ops-Manager, CloudFoundry API, Single-Sign-On, and BOSH. His hands-on strengths span Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring, distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, vSphere), and identity/authentication protocols (OAuth2, JWT, SAML, LDAP). Aakash has repeatedly moved teams toward better engineering practices while reducing technical debt and collaborating with open-source communities. He combines deep systems-level knowledge (OS, DNS, VM orchestration) with product-focused leadership that aligns engineering, product, and stakeholders. Trained at Colorado School of Mines, he brings a pragmatic, end-to-end mindset to scalable platform problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (156)
github10
controller10
sap-cap10
authentication10
ruby10
ubuntu10
runc10
cloud-foundry10
chain10
elm10
foundry10
sap-hana10
continuous-integration10
openid-connect10
java10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dsp-testing/aashah-pub
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
test pub
Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
nodejs
aashah/advent_of_code
Dec 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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