Ishan Shah
Software Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIshan Shah is a Software Development Engineer at AWS with seven years of hands-on experience building backend systems, modernizing legacy services, and delivering reliable microservices. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from RIT with top grades and has driven measurable impact—such as a 12% operational efficiency gain and 99.9% uptime improvements during a Paychex internship. Comfortable across Java, Python, Spring Boot, Neo4j, and cloud-native stacks, he has also built a graph-based recommendation engine and refactored backends to cut load times significantly. Beyond production work, Ishan mentors and teaches, having served as a lab instructor and peer leader supporting hundreds of international students. Now based in San Jose, he blends rigorous academic training with practical product delivery at scale, and his GitHub motto “let me cook” hints at a pragmatic, build-first approach to solving complex problems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
New Activity SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyI.C.S.E., 90%, I.C.S.E., 90% at Activity High School - IndiaDiploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at Shri Bhagubhai Mafatlal Polytechnic
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (38)
tailwind10
tailwindcss10
react10
radix9
ui-components9
react-component-library9
radix-ui9
text-to-speech9
nextjs9
speech-synthesis9
speech-to-text9
css9
shadcn-ui9
speech9
animation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
timothysitu/aak-website
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:35 PRs, 77 pushes, 42 branches in 1 month
ishan0102/countdowns
May 2023 - Mar 2025
literally just cool looking countdowns
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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