Nilay Shah
Senior Software Engineer at PocketHealth
Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNilay Shah is a Senior Software Engineer based in Canada with 11 years of experience building scalable web systems and shipping pragmatic products. He currently contributes to PocketHealth while also co-founding Tidbit, where he bootstrapped infrastructure and delivered an MVP in about two months to help researchers and clinicians translate knowledge visually. Comfortable across the stack, Nilay has hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails, Cloud SQL (MySQL), and GCP, and pairs engineering work with user interviews and product thinking. He excels at turning ambiguous problems into reliable, production-ready services and at moving quickly from prototype to shipped value. Collected training from the University of Toronto in Computer Science underpins a disciplined approach to software design and execution. Colleagues would describe him as a builder who quietly scales systems and teams while staying user-focused.
11 years of coding experience
Honors Bachelor of Science (HBSc), Computer Science, Honors Bachelor of Science (HBSc), Computer Science at University of Toronto
Gujarati, English
Stackoverflow
11reputation
1kreached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (15)
audit10
kubernetes-namespace9
security9
kubernetes-cluster9
kubernetes9
command-line-tool8
authorization8
html6
internet-explorer6
swagger-ui3
rails3
openapi3
swagger2
rswag1
ssh1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Nilay-Shah/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 29 pushes, 7 branches in 9 years 1 month
Nilay-Shah/UofTHacks2015
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.