Karan Shah
Senior Software Engineer at Simply Business
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Shah is a Senior Software Engineer based in England with over a decade of Java experience and eight years of professional industry tenure across Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Simply Business. He blends strong backend Java expertise with a drive to master full-stack development, underpinned by an MSc in Software Engineering from Imperial College and a BSc from the University of Birmingham. At Simply Business he contributes to production-grade systems, drawing on prior fintech and enterprise experience to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving and a continuous-learning mindset that keeps him exploring modern stacks beyond his Java roots.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science with an Industrial Year, 73%, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science with an Industrial Year, 73% at The University of BirminghamInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at ABA - An IB World SchoolMaster of Science - MSc, Computing (Software Engineering), 66%, Master of Science - MSc, Computing (Software Engineering), 66% at Imperial College London
English
Github Skills (141)
automation10
infrastructure10
dx10
microservices10
probot10
service-catalog10
backstage10
keyboard9
snap9
user-input9
pty9
plugin9
wordpress-plugin9
macos-sierra9
karabiner9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moltenice/ecommerce-portfolio
Aug 2019 - May 2021
An E-Commerce portfolio website created using React. It's not a real site, just something for me to both learn react and showcase my knowledge of it!
Contributions:16 PRs, 71 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
reactlearn-reactcommerceknowledgecss
moltenice-forks/backstage
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:117 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
portalsopen-platformportalbackstageknockoutjs
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