Shaan Sapra is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and web applications. He has a strong background in full-stack and DevOps work—shipping Kubernetes Operators, interoperable React/Golang services, and platform management features at VMware and Pivotal before joining Meta. Shaan contributes to high-profile open-source Cloud Foundry projects (BOSH and bosh-cli), where he’s improved build/deploy infrastructure, security fixes, and CLI reliability. Comfortable across MVC web stacks and distributed systems, he blends hands-on coding with operational rigor around testing, staging, and deployments. He also teaches introductory web development, demonstrating a knack for translating complex systems into learnable concepts. Notably, his work spans both product-facing UX improvements and low-level infra hardening, making him effective at bridging developer experience and platform stability.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Starter League
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Economics at University of Chicago
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:15 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shaan primarily focused on maintaining and updating the build and deployment infrastructure for the BOSH project. Their contributions include fixing deprecated Docker repository references, correcting GPG key fingerprints, and improving the build context for the Docker CPI. They also updated the JSON library and bumped activesupport to address security vulnerabilities.
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shaan primarily focused on improving the BOSH CLI's functionality and stability. Their contributions included enhancing error messaging for runtime configurations and ensuring the `bosh logs` command could follow agent logs. They also added Linux support to the homebrew formula. Additional changes involved addressing an error assertion for a URL and refining documentation for the `skip-drain` value within the deploy command.
boshcloud-foundrycloudfoundrypcfbosh-cli
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