Neel Shah
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolNeel Shah is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and maintaining backend systems and SDKs, currently contributing to Sentry’s Ruby and Python SDKs from Vienna. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership (former Tech Lead at MindMeister) across stacks that include Ruby/Rails, Python, cloud platforms and observability tooling. At Sentry he implemented client reporting, dynamic sampling support for Ruby, and robustness improvements that improve error and performance monitoring for millions of users. His background spans product-facing SaaS, devops, and developer tooling, informed by rigorous academic training in signal processing and machine learning from IIT Bombay and doctoral work in computer vision. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and measurable quality improvements in SDKs used widely across the developer ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Student (Dropped out), Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Combinatorial Optimization, PhD Student (Dropped out), Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Combinatorial Optimization at Institute of Science and Technology AustriaIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, German, Hindi
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Github Skills (26)
monitoring10
error-reporting10
ruby-rails10
sentry10
tracer10
python10
django10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
sdk10
error-log10
crash-reports10
error-handling10
performance-monitoring10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-ruby
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Sentry SDK for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:448 reviews, 127 commits, 368 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Neel implemented several features related to client reporting within the Sentry Ruby SDK. This included adding configuration options, refactoring transport logic to handle event sending and rate limiting, and implementing mechanisms to record and report lost events. They introduced client report functionalities to improve event tracking and error monitoring. The commits also touch on performance improvements and session tracking.
sentryerror-monitoringsentry-sdkrubysdk
getsentry/sentry-python
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The official Python SDK for Sentry.io
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:629 reviews, 54 commits, 324 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Neel primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Sentry Python SDK, particularly focusing on integrations. Their work included fixing Django-related issues like URL resolution and custom URLconf handling. They also addressed client-reporting problems related to tracing, incorporating measurements, and improved serialization, demonstrating a focus on code quality and SDK functionality.
sentry-iopythonsentrysdksentry-python
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