Pooja Shah
Head Of Product at Rain
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPooja Shah is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 8 years of experience building developer- and payments-facing platforms, currently leading product at Rain after founding Fern to deliver seamless crypto–fiat currency conversion. She has a strong track record at Protocol Labs where she progressed from startup operator to Filecoin product lead and head of product, and contributed to the Filecoin docs to improve developer onboarding and deployment guidance. Her background blends deep technical training (MS in Computer Science from Stanford) with business strategy (MBA from Wharton) and early entrepreneurial work in VR at Dagny. Based in New York, she combines operator instincts with product strategy to ship infrastructure-grade developer tools and financial services, and off-hours she pursues adventurous hobbies like hang gliding and baking croissants—evidence of a leader who balances high-risk problem solving with meticulous craft.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at The Wharton SchoolMaster of Science - MS Bioengineering, Master of Science - MS Bioengineering at University of PennsylvaniaIrvington High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
French, Spanish, Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
vuepress10
filecoin10
documentation10
web-content9
content-model9
javascript4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/filecoin-docs
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Filecoin Docs
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 reviews, 67 commits, 20 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pooja primarily focused on restructuring and updating the Filecoin documentation. They reorganized the documentation structure, moving and separating sections like "Build" and "Core Products." The user added and updated content throughout, especially within the "Build" section, including deployment guides and examples, while also adjusting the configuration for Netlify tests. Their work enhances the usability and completeness of the Filecoin documentation, providing clearer guidance for developers.
filecoin
filecoin-project/sample-data
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
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