Arush Shankar
Engineering Manager at Persona
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArush Shankar is an engineering manager based in New York with 12 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable backend systems and consumer-facing products. He progressed from software engineer roles at Microsoft and Square to senior individual contributor and management positions at Persona, where he has been shaping engineering efforts since 2019 and formally managing teams since 2021. His background includes academic teaching in algorithms and data structures at USC, reflecting a strong foundation in computer science and a knack for mentoring engineers. Arush has experience in civic-tech leadership as Lead Engineer at BallotView and a Kleiner Perkins engineering fellowship, showing comfort operating at the intersection of product, policy, and technical execution. He combines hands-on coding instincts with cross-functional collaboration, often translating complex requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (34)
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computer-science8
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gatsby7
json7
java7
activemodel7
documentation7
sentry7
activerecord6
react6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
arushs/arushs.github.io
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 1 month
arushs/ballotview-web
Nov 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 5 years 7 months
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