Jay Shah
Software Engineer (Backend) at Couchbase
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Shah is a backend software engineer and security-minded SRE with 11 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native services across networking, security, and developer tooling. Currently at Couchbase, he ships Go services, Terraform modules, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure while running secure CI/CD and observability pipelines. His background spans high-throughput banking networks to fintech and cloud platforms, where he automated network operations, migrated infra-as-code, and implemented near real-time cloud misconfiguration detection. Notably, he built CI-integrated fuzzing and test-coverage tools to prevent regressions and raised test hygiene for critical code paths. A lifelong learner with nano-degrees in React and SQL plus HBX business training, he blends hands-on coding with threat modeling and pragmatic security engineering. Based in Old Toronto, he thrives on solving cross-disciplinary problems and mentoring teams to ship secure, reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Computer Systems Technology - Networking, Advanced Diploma, Computer Systems Technology - Networking at Centennial CollegeBachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at Gujarat UniversityNano Degree, Front-End Web Development, Nano Degree, Front-End Web Development at UdacityHBX Core, Business Analytics | Economics For Managers | Financial Accounting, HBX Core, Business Analytics | Economics For Managers | Financial Accounting at HBX / Harvard Business School
English
Github Skills (70)
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
converting10
proxy10
swagger10
consul10
kong10
serverless10
rest-api10
microservices10
cloud-native10
native-api10
openapi10
continuous-delivery10
validation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reversearrow/Resume
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:79 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
reversearrow/distributed-services-with-go
Dec 2022 - Sep 2023
Code from the Distributed Services with Go
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes, 11 branches in 8 months
golanggodistributed
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