Rakesh Shah
Software Developer II at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh Shah is a Software Developer II with 11 years of experience combining product management instincts and hands-on engineering to deliver web and data-driven solutions. Based in Ames, Iowa, he has led cross-functional teams and mentored student data-science projects at Iowa State University Extension, turning complex community needs into production React/Node applications for local food systems and agricultural reporting. He brings a track record of modernizing legacy workflows—implementing GitHub CI/CD to cut delivery time—and of shipping VR and immersive graphics work earlier in his career. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and data pipelines, Rakesh pairs an MS in Computer Science and an MBA to bridge technical design with user-focused product outcomes. An approachable leader and frequent mentor, he excels at translating stakeholder requirements into measurable features that provide competitive differentiation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Iowa State University - Ivy College of BusinessBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
English, Nepali, Hindi, Maithili
Github Skills (3)
unity3d6
biology6
game-development4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RakeshKShah/rakeshkshah.github.io
May 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
ktmrakesh/OLAP-XML-Federation
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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