Shaan Shah
Marketing Talent Consultant at MarketerHire
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolShaan Shah is a growth-focused marketing and partnerships leader with 12 years of experience building revenue-generating programs across edtech, blockchain, and enterprise training. He co-founded MakerSquare and later scaled Macro to multimillion-dollar revenue and venture backing, repeatedly closing seven- and six-figure deals with partners like Google, PayPal, Visa, and Coinbase Ventures. Shaan combines hands-on sales, product-informed marketing, and talent recruitment—often hiring directly from coding schools—to create scalable learning-to-employment pathways that produced a 93% graduate placement rate. He also secured a $1M+ grant with the Obama Administration and designed community-focused initiatives like Coding for a Cause and a Drexel University coding program for low-income students. Based in Chicago, he blends financial rigor from an accounting background with technical training from immersive software programs to translate mission-driven education into measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorEngineer's degree Web Development, Engineer's degree Web Development at Fullstack AcademyAccounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bartlett High School
English, Gujarati, Spanish
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shahshaan/smart-shopping
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 22 days
shopping-listshopping
shahshaan/Run-Planner
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 11 days
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