Summary
Mishal Shah is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and resilient systems, currently advancing Google Ads support tooling while pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. She brings a strong IoT and edge background from Cisco’s Edge Intelligence team, where she shipped device-cloud features and improved CI runtime by ~20%. Comfortable across networks, databases, web security and SRE/DevOps practices, Mishal blends product-focused engineering with reliability work. An active open-source contributor and former Google Summer of Code student and mentor for ns-3, she has a knack for turning research-grade simulators and tools into usable developer workflows. She also has hands-on experience leading student teams and building campus-wide systems used by 1,000+ users, reflecting both technical depth and community-building instincts. Based in Gujarat, India, she enjoys speaking at hackathons and exploring tooling that creates measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
HSC, Science, HSC, Science at Rosary High School
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka