Hitesh Shah
Senior Engineering Manager at Facebook
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHitesh Shah is a senior engineering manager in San Francisco with 13 years of experience leading teams across consumer tech, robotics, vision, and AR startups. Currently at Meta (Facebook), he blends hands-on backend engineering with strategic product leadership, previously shaping innovation as a manager at Spin Master and directing technology development in machine-vision roles. He co-founded an AR startup (DAQRI) and has academic roots from IIT Bombay, pairing research-grade vision science with practical systems delivery. An active contributor to open-source infrastructure, his ParSeq work improved async Java robustness by adding safer side-effect and exception handling patterns—reflecting a focus on reliable, testable systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who navigates both R&D ambiguity and production-scale engineering.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) at Sardar Patel University
Github Skills (6)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
javas10
exception-handling10
async10
java10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/parseq
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Asynchronous Java made easier
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 16 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Hitesh primarily contributed to the ParSeq library by introducing new functionalities related to side effects and exception handling. They implemented features like static `withSideEffect` and `withSafeSideEffect`, adding flexibility to the asynchronous task execution. Additionally, the user added tests to ensure the proper function and error handling of the implemented features. The changes focused on improving the library's robustness and ease of use.
javaasynchronousasync
hiteshsharma/parseq
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Asynchronous Java made easier
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 1 month
asynchronousnioasyncjavajava-client
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