Aalok Shah
VP Cross Desk Strats Developer Velocity
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAalok Shah is a seasoned engineering manager and full-stack developer with 15 years of experience building high-performance, production systems for finance and enterprise customers. Currently leading the x42 platform at Morgan Stanley, he architects web-first tools that replace Excel modeling with real-time, browser-based analytics backed by KDB/Q, Python, and Java, and champions developer velocity across the Strats organization. He has a track record of shipping scalable APIs and data buses for high-traffic sites (ReutersNext) and building data-driven SaaS products as CTO of 42stats, blending product ownership with hands-on coding. Comfortable across front-end frameworks (Angular/React) and back-end services (Python, Java, Go), he bridges trading desk requirements and engineering delivery while producing docs, examples, and talks to drive adoption. Notably, he has repeatedly modernized legacy trading infrastructure into web-native platforms that support billion-row tables and real-time analytics.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of IllinoisHigh School, High School at Streamwood High School
English, Gujarati
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Github Skills (53)
javascript10
typescript10
highcharts10
go-language9
type-check9
visualization9
charting9
typechecker9
charts9
grid9
visualizations9
superset9
excel9
react9
sorting9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pomack/thrift4go
Jul 2010 - Feb 2014
Apache Thrift for the Go Language
Contributions:138 commits in 3 years 7 months
golangapache-thriftapachego-languagethrift
pomack/oauth2_client.go
Sep 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:41 commits in 6 months
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