Kathan Shah
Senior Engineering Manager at Perceptyx
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKathan Shah is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Seattle with eight years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience driving resilient, cost-efficient backend systems. He has led architecture and observability improvements at Lyft—contributing to the open-source Clutch chaos experimentation framework and cutting operational costs by 75%—and later scaled testing and DLP efforts that enabled an $800K contract win. Comfortable in both code and org-level strategy, Kathan blends deep backend and DevOps expertise (notably contributions to Envoy and fault-injection tooling) with strong mentorship that has accelerated multiple promotions. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and brings a pragmatic focus on reducing bugs, improving data retention, and shipping reliable systems at scale.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology at Sardar Patel University
Github Skills (20)
apidoc10
back-end-development10
infrastructure-management10
go10
api10
backend10
kubernetes9
dockers9
microservices-application9
docker9
kubernetes-pods9
cnc9
documentation9
microservices9
grpc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lyft/clutch
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
Extensible platform for infrastructure management
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 14 commits, 33 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kathan primarily contributed to backend logic and functionality within the `clutch` repository, specifically focusing on the chaos experimentation framework. Their work included modifying the migration process, enhancing the server experimentation features, and addressing bugs related to fault injection. The user implemented new features and fixed existing issues related to the Envoy ECDS. They also added stats for active faults.
lyftdevopsansibleinfrastructureinfrastructure-management
envoyproxy/envoy
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kathan contributed to the Envoy proxy project by addressing deprecated Python virtual environment arguments, indicating involvement in build and testing infrastructure. They also worked on an LRS (Load Reporting Service) example, enhancing the documentation and example code. Additionally, the user exposed hooks into the Engine to run callbacks, and provided a getClusterManager function, suggesting contributions to the core engine functionalities.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
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