Akshit Shah
Vice President Of Engineering at Mastercard
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAkshit Shah is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building distributed, data-driven systems and high-performing teams from San Francisco. Currently Vice President of Engineering at Mastercard, he has risen through technical and leadership roles focused on personalization, offers targeting, and migrating large-scale platforms after starting as an engineer at Adobe. He blends hands-on systems design—Hadoop/EMR, AWS, Python, Java—and product-led delivery, collaborating closely with data scientists to embed predictive models into production. Known for thoughtful risk-taking and a "fail fast" mindset, he pairs customer focus with metrics-driven outcomes to improve product performance and sales demos alike. Beyond org strategy, Akshit has a track record of rewriting legacy batch workloads into scalable data pipelines and mentoring engineers across hiring, code reviews, and operational practices. He brings a pragmatic builder's mentality: comfortable in the weeds of architecture yet accountable for business impact.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityBE, Computer Engineering, BE, Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
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Github contributions (4)
jvashishtha/listypedia
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:22 commits in 1 month
priyankgandhi/ideate
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 day
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