Karan Shah
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Shah is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building production software across Microsoft and earlier roles at Amazon and startups. He combines enterprise-scale engineering with startup grit—cofounding two ventures during university and consulting as a business analyst—so he equally values product-market fit and technical excellence. At Microsoft he progressed through roles from Software Engineer to Principal, demonstrating sustained delivery and leadership in large-scale systems. He holds a Master’s in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon and a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC, bringing both product-minded strategy and deep engineering rigor. Notably, his background in founding teams and early-stage product work gives him practical empathy for founders and cross-functional stakeholders when shaping technical roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Management, Master of Science - MS Software Management at Carnegie Mellon University - Integrated Innovation InstituteBachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at University of Illinois SystemBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (25)
dotnet10
sdk10
azure10
azure-sdk9
microsoft9
azure-functions9
data-connect9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
microsoft-graph9
powerbi8
microsoft-graph-api8
office3658
graph7
microsoft-azure6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
khshah3/Whatsapp-on-Parse-Cloud
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
OfficeDev/MS-Graph-Data-Connect
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
One stop shop for developers using Microsoft Graph data connect
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
graph-datastopoffice-365power-platformfor-developers
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