Karan Shaw
Tech Lead Software Engineer III at Kapitus
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKaran Shaw is a Toronto-based Tech Lead and founder with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack, cloud-native systems across BioTech, FinTech, HealthTech and more. He has led engineering teams as Head of Engineering and CTO, founded Trybotics which grew to 50K monthly users, and now guides platform and DevOps initiatives as a Tech Lead/Software Engineer III. Karan combines deep Node.js/TypeScript expertise with AWS-driven serverless and containerized architectures, plus strong CI/CD, observability and security practices. He’s equally comfortable breaking monoliths into microservices, architecting event-driven pipelines, and shipping accessible, high-performance UIs. Known for mentoring teams through TypeScript migrations and design-for-reliability, he pairs pragmatic lean product strategy with technical rigor. Outside product work he has taught AI/robotics and built community-driven learning platforms, reflecting a persistent focus on practical education and maker culture.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary Education Science Mathematics and Computer Science, Secondary Education Science Mathematics and Computer Science at St Dominic Savio School (ICSE)Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science Engineering at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal formerly WBUTHigher Secondary ScienceMathematics and Computer Science, Higher Secondary ScienceMathematics and Computer Science at Ratnakar North Point School (ISC)
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (15)
react9
overflow-menu6
phone-call6
android-permissions6
toast6
javascript6
android6
python6
react-bootstrap6
scikit-learn6
react-component5
datepicker4
dayjs3
datetime3
date-fns2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
trybotics/Robotics
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
trybotics/paypay_gateway
Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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