Nimit Shah
Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNimit Shah is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-availability cloud and infrastructure systems, currently working on AI infrastructure at Meta after a six-year tenure at Microsoft where he led Cosmos DB HA/DR efforts and served as a subject-matter expert for backup/restore and OLAP/OLTP features. He combines deep systems and security expertise—grounded in a CMU master’s in Information Security—with hands-on contributions to Teams, SharePoint integration, and shared Azure microservice infrastructure. An advocate for performance and efficiency, he has optimized core API memory and network footprints and designed near-real-time business-state computation systems for appointment workflows. Nimit is also an active open-source maintainer, contributing full-stack fixes and UX improvements to the popular Getting Things GNOME! desktop app, and has mentored both engineers at Microsoft and students in GNOME’s GSoC. His background includes reducing security vulnerabilities and achieving FIPS compliance in enterprise agents, and he brings a pragmatic blend of security-first thinking and scalable engineering to cloud and AI platforms. Based in Redmond, he pairs enterprise impact with a longtime commitment to community-driven software.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Utkarsh VidyalayaB-Tech, Computer Science, B-Tech, Computer Science at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Carnegie Mellon University
Gujarati, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
458reputation
41kreached
19answers
7questions
kibana
top-5%
Github Skills (18)
python10
gtk10
kibana9
user-interface9
desktop-application9
gnome9
todomvc8
to-do8
todolist8
elasticsearch6
timestamp6
javac6
executable-jar6
jackson6
lucene6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
getting-things-gnome/gtg
Mar 2012 - Jul 2014
Getting Things GNOME! desktop app development
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:67 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nimit primarily focused on improving the Getting Things GNOME! (GTG) desktop application, making changes to both the front-end and back-end components. The contributions included bug fixes related to date constraints, tag handling, and calendar interactions, specifically addressing issues with task due dates, and the creation of empty tags. The user also implemented enhancements to the user interface, such as adding parent task links to the task editor and improving the quick add feature by removing initial whitespace.
gnomegtdgtd-applicationsgtd-assistantgtd-workflow
NimitS1/best_of_stackoverflow
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 4 years 3 months
pythonstackoverflowbest-ofbest-of-liststackoverflow-questions
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