Salman Shah
Product Engineer at Intercom
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSalman Shah is a product-minded engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, high-impact systems across cloud platforms and consumer fintech. He has shipped infrastructure and product features at scale—from petabyte storage and generative AI use cases at Smartsheet to banking integrations at Plaid and performance-critical services at Myntra—using Go, Java/Kotlin, AWS, and modern infra tooling. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, Salman has also improved the Open Library project during Google Summer of Code and implemented algorithms in C for Hacktoberfest repositories, showing a hands-on comfort with both backend systems and front-end integrations. He combines technical delivery with a people-first approach: connecting teams, simplifying complex tech for non-technical audiences, and preferring collaborative risk-taking to unlock new product value. Based in London, he pairs a strong engineering pedigree from NITK with an active public presence (YouTube and personal site) and off-hours pursuits like marathon training and Indian cooking that reflect his discipline and curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
HSC Science, HSC Science at PACE Junior Science College, AndheriBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi, French, Marathi, Urdu
Github Skills (15)
c1710
data-structures10
google-recaptcha10
quicksort10
algorithms10
insertion-sort10
c1110
data-structure10
recaptcha10
google-books10
python9
javascript8
databases8
html8
database8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
WebClub-NITK/Hacktoberfest-2k17
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Official Repository for Hacktoberfest 2k17 NITK Edition meetup conducted at NITK Surathkal in collaboration with Team Engineer. Credits to @jenkoian for the Hacktoberfest Checker @rohitvarkey for the PDF for Tuesday's talk! | https://hacktoberfestchecker.herokuapp.com/ | https://hacktoberfest.bock.rocks/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:316 commits, 472 PRs, 308 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Salman contributed to the repository by implementing and modifying various sorting and searching algorithms. Their work involved writing and merging code in C, including implementations of Fibonacci Search, Quick Sort, and Insertion Sort. The user's changes also included contributions to a menu-based calculator and a sieve of Eratosthenes implementation.
rockspdfnitk-surathkalcheckerjavascript
internetarchive/openlibrary
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
One webpage for every book ever published!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Salman primarily contributed to the frontend and backend functionality of the Open Library project. Their work included removing search results, changing password related UI elements and adding and integrating reCAPTCHA features across multiple pages, indicating front-end modifications, and server-side integration. Additionally, the user made edits to improve Wikipedia citations and corrected and updated URL related fields and database entries. These changes suggest a wide scope across multiple components of the web application.
reactinternet-archiveeverlibrary-cataloguepublished
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