Dave Shah
Founding Engineer Head Of Engineering at Avandra Imaging
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Shah is a founding engineer and Head of Engineering at Avandra Imaging with 14 years of experience building full‑stack, cloud-native systems across startups and enterprise teams. A Marine Corps veteran and distance runner, he blends disciplined operational leadership with hands‑on engineering in Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes. Dave has repeatedly acted as a player‑coach—scaling teams, shaping architecture, and shipping customer‑facing products from clinical tools to supply‑chain and insurance platforms. He contributes to developer tooling (e.g., enhancing the mix-test.watch TDD watcher) and is comfortable diving into backend subtleties like file‑watching bugs and configuration path handling. Based in Cleveland, he pairs pragmatic delivery with mentorship and a knack for translating complex domain needs into maintainable systems. Colleagues describe him as steady under pressure, focused on measurable customer value, and unexpectedly playful with high‑fives.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Engineering at The University of Toledo
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Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
tdd10
filesystemwatcher10
elixir10
testing10
cucumber6
xcode6
iphone6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lpil/mix-test.watch
May 2016 - Jun 2016
🎠 Because TDD is awesome
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `mix-test.watch` project, which appears to be a testing tool. Their contributions involved adding support for additional file types, refining how files are included for testing, and renaming configuration variables. They made changes to the configuration, path handling, and watcher modules to improve the tool's flexibility and usability. The user also addressed a bug related to watching `.hrl` files.
incrementaljesttestingjavascriptexunit
daveshah/gatherto
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:67 commits, 20 PRs, 90 pushes in 7 months
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