Parag Shah
Creative Writer
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolParag Shah is a former software engineer turned full-time creative writer based in Pune with 17 years of professional experience spanning enterprise Java, research projects, and founding an eLearning/consulting venture. After two decades building J2EE solutions, training engineers, and prototyping intelligent agents in academic–industry consortia, he transitioned in 2021 to pursue memoirs, travelogues, personal essays, mythological fiction, and speculative short stories. He combines a disciplined, engineering-rooted approach to craft—exemplified by a daily full-day journaling practice—with a deep interest in narrative structure and ideas. As founder of Adaptive Software Solutions he bridged academia and industry, mentoring students and building practical training platforms to close the CS skills gap. His background in both rigorous software architecture and reflective writing enables him to tackle technically informed stories and human-centred nonfiction with equal fluency. Based in Pune, he brings a rare blend of analytical rigor and literary curiosity to his writing.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Github Skills (24)
serve10
python7
width6
minesweeper4
styles4
xml4
coldfusion4
validate4
specification3
swing3
axlsx3
flask3
schema-validation3
lucee3
validation3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
adaptives/python-examples
Apr 2009 - Jun 2012
Example code to serve as a basic introduction to Python programming
Contributions:33 commits in 3 years 2 months
python-programmingpythonservepython3introduction-to-python
adaptives/adaptivelearning
Jun 2009 - Nov 2009
Contributions:87 commits in 4 months
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