Summary
Kesha Shah is a backend-focused software engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable, reliable web and ML infrastructure across startups and large enterprises, currently contributing at Cruise in Bellevue. She combines deep CS fundamentals and hands-on coding in Java, Go, Python and cloud services with product ownership experience, having taken ideas from ideation to MVP and venture pitches. Her work spans data-quality and orchestration platforms for ML pipelines, risk-management systems in finance, and web-based developer tooling like a CLI for SnapLogic. A proven intrapreneur and award-winning innovator, she has won internal incubator funding at Morgan Stanley and led a Deutsche Bank innovation product as product owner. An active open-source advocate and recipient of Red Hat’s Women in Open Source Award, she also cleared all CFA levels in consecutive years with top-percentile scores—highlighting a rare mix of technical depth and quantitative rigor.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of San Francisco
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, 9.14/10, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, 9.14/10 at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
M.K. Higher Secondary School
CFA Institute
FRM - Financial Risk Manager, FRM - Financial Risk Manager at Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
English, Hindi, Gujarati