Darshit Shah
Kernel Hypervisor Developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDarshit Shah is a Kernel/Hypervisor developer with 11 years of systems engineering experience, now working at AWS and long-time lead maintainer of GNU Wget. He brings deep expertise in real-time and safety-critical systems—having worked on JVMs, compilers (GCC/LLVM), schedulers, garbage collectors and hand-optimized binaries for multicore and embedded RTOS platforms. His background spans research (WCET improvements and VHDL FP unit design), industry hypervisor development, and firmware for high-performance hardware, with practical experience in ISO26262, MISRA C, DO-254 and IEC 61508 domains. An extreme polyglot (C/C++, Rust, Java, Python, Go, Perl, Lua) and Free Software advocate, he mentors contributors through Google Summer of Code and has refactored decades-old codebases for maintainability. Based in Berlin, he combines digital archaeology—untangling legacy systems—with cutting-edge virtualization and performance work, and maintains an active presence across GitLab/GitHub.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesHSC Science with CS, HSC Science with CS at Kishinchand Chellaram Junior College
English, Hindi, Gujarati, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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imap10
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dog10
text-editing10
argument-parsing10
mbox10
completions10
twitch10
pop310
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
darnir/neomutt
May 2016 - Dec 2019
Bringing together all the Mutt code
Contributions:47 pushes, 91 branches in 3 years 6 months
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