Riken Shah
SWE at Msquare Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiken Shah is a pragmatic software engineer with six years of experience building scalable backends and infra from scratch, currently owning the backend and deployment architecture at Msquare Labs where he rewrote services in Go to achieve 5x performance and scaled systems to 100K+ RPS. He has a strong open-source pedigree from Zulip—57+ merged PRs including an Emoji Status feature used by thousands—and mentors GSoC contributors, reflecting deep testing and front-end automation expertise. Riken ships product-facing tooling as well: he grew a Figma plugin, PicsAI, organically to 13K+ users and built Tasks’ entire infra that now supports 600K+ users. He’s also exploring applied ML for textiles (spatially coherent image decomposition) and has a knack for resourceful engineering—once running Zulip on a 4GB laptop to fund his first Mac—making him drawn to ambitious, cost-conscious solutions.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 9.1, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 9.1 at Bhagwan Mahavir UniversityGujarat Technological University
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Github Skills (10)
puppeteer10
javascript10
gui-testing10
ui-testing10
css9
react8
testing7
electron6
ecmascript6
accessibility5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:127 reviews, 111 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Riken primarily focused on improving the front-end testing infrastructure and user interface components. Their commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the testing framework Puppeteer, with significant work done to adapt and enhance tests for cross-browser compatibility, specifically Firefox. They refactored tests, updated selectors, and added features to handle user interactions and compose box behavior. Additionally, they addressed UI responsiveness issues and improved the overall user experience by adjusting existing components in settings and keyboard shortcuts.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
Riken-Shah/InstaQuoteBot
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Instagram Quote Page which is handled by a Bot
Contributions:94 commits, 22 PRs, 61 pushes in 5 months
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