Rohan Shah
Head Of Engineering at Upfront
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRohan Shah is a Head of Engineering and full-stack product engineer with 14 years of experience building fast, practical web and mobile products from early-stage startups to scale-ups. He’s fluent in TypeScript and JavaScript ecosystems, ships quickly, and pairs that front-end strength with server-side experience in Go and integrations work. Rohan has led engineering at Upfront, was a founding engineer at consumer-fintech startup Gravy, and spent six years at Plaid building Link, integrations tooling, and bank authorization flows. He thrives at the intersection of product and infrastructure, often bridging design-driven front ends with robust backend systems for payments and retail use cases. Based in New York, he brings a consistent track record of early hires and platform-building—plus a mathematician’s approach to pragmatic engineering from a UT Austin BS in Math & CS. Beyond coding, he advises aviation software startups, signaling an appetite for domain variety and operationalizing complex workflows.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Elkins High School
English
Github Skills (65)
plaid10
browser9
react9
python-bindings9
typescript9
jwt8
reddit8
authentication8
firefox-addon8
api-client8
oauth8
nextjs8
chrome-extension8
nodejs8
auth7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
r-ohan/rohanshah.xyz
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
pfista/Curfew
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:25 commits in 1 month
sharingandroidlocation-sharinglocationtime-based
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