Daksh Shah
Co-Founder & CTO at Tilt (YC W21)
India
Summary
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Top SchoolDaksh Shah is a founder-CTO with a decade of hands-on experience building product and infrastructure for a fast-growing, YC-backed bike-share startup serving Indian campuses. He blends startup grit with technical depth, owning everything from core systems to DevOps—evidenced by his open-source local-cert-generator that streamlines HTTPS for development environments. A pragmatic engineer who left formal college to build rather than study, he has scaled teams and systems while navigating fundraising and product-market fit. Based in India, he focuses on reliable, secure engineering that accelerates shipping and reduces developer friction. Colleagues know him for shipping practical tooling and for keeping engineering decisions grounded in real user and operational needs.
10 years of coding experience
W21, W21 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Engineering, Dropout, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Engineering, Dropout at National Institute of Technology Surat
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
966reputation
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16answers
14questions
Github Skills (17)
cert10
http10
bash10
certificate-authority10
openssl10
ca10
devops9
cryptography8
html6
macos6
mongodb6
thumbnails6
nodejs6
google-chrome6
mongoose6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dakshshah96/local-cert-generator
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
🚀 A set of scripts to quickly generate a HTTPS certificate for your local development environment.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Daksh focused on creating and modifying shell scripts to generate HTTPS certificates for a local development environment. They developed scripts to create a root Certificate Authority (CA) and self-signed certificates. Further contributions included adjusting the validity period (days) of the generated certificates. This work provided essential infrastructure for secure local development.
https-certificatelocal-developmentnodejsdevelopment-environmentcertificate
dakshshah96/dotfiles
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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