Imran Shah
Vice President Of Engineering at American Express
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolImran Shah is a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience building scalable, high-performance systems and driving digital transformation, currently serving as Director of Technology at American Express in Phoenix/Scottsdale. He blends hands-on engineering pedigree—from designing real-time risk analysis platforms using C++, Java, Spring and RocksDB to crafting Angular UI frameworks—with strategic leadership in architecture, delivery and cross-functional stakeholder alignment. As former CTO of a fintech-focused startup, he established engineering KPIs, modernized SLDCs and operationalized Big Data replay for robust testing, showing a knack for marrying reliability with speed-to-market. Imran’s career at American Express spans staff engineering to technical architecture leadership, where he’s mentored teams and standardized resilient, scalable architectures. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Arizona State University and brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to innovation that balances technical depth with business impact.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Bharati Vidyapeeth's College Of Engineerin PuneHigh School, High School at Burn Hall School
Github Skills (29)
vs-extension9
database9
cpp8
visual-programming8
storage-engine8
json-parser7
json7
filesystem7
key-value-store7
messagepack6
json-serialization6
angular6
bson6
datatable6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixchinar/rocksplicator
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
RocksDB Replication
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 months
replicationrocksdb
phoenixchinar/rocksdb
May 2021 - May 2021
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
persistent-storagelmdbrocksdbnosql-databasefast-storage
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