Amish Shah
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Amish Shah is a software engineer based in London with 11 years of practical experience and a foundation in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. He currently builds software at Palantir and has interned at Bloomberg where he contributed to high-traffic financial tooling using JavaScript/TypeScript and C++. As the founder and long-time maintainer of Discord.js—a popular Node.js library with hundreds of millions of downloads—he brings deep open-source experience and a knack for developer-facing APIs. His background spans full-stack and systems work across startups, enterprise placements, and student ventures, and he’s actively focused on improving voice API support and real-time features. Outside of code, he has experience tutoring and designing accessible web apps for research dissemination, reflecting an interest in making complex tech approachable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterA-Levels, A-Levels at Ashton Sixth Form CollegeWest Hill School
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Github Skills (181)
video-encoding10
bots10
udp10
javascript10
discord-js10
ytdl10
youtube10
audio10
jsdoc10
transcoding10
api10
voice10
js10
music10
blueprint10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
greatunihack/2020-greatunihack
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 reviews, 38 commits, 3 PRs in 29 days
amishshah/ytdl-core-discord
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
A ytdl-core wrapper focused on efficiency for use in Discord music bots
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 42 commits in 2 years 4 months
discordopusdiscord-botyoutubeaudio
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