Shaaz A
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ireland
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Top SchoolShaaz A is a polyglot software engineer with 12 years’ experience building distributed systems and developer-facing tools, currently contributing to AWS Lambda features such as Extensions, Custom Runtimes and SnapStart. He combines hands-on engineering in Go, Java, Python and JavaScript with product-minded design, having scaled services at Go-JEK during 900x growth and served as the first engineer at a Swiss energy analytics startup. Comfortable across the full stack, Shaaz drives performance, correctness and business value—from runtime internals to user-facing workflows—and has led hiring and mentoring to grow teams. He blends academic rigor (MSc in High-Performance Computing; part-time MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford) with startup grit, including founding an ed-tech non-profit and prototyping hardware-software solutions on Raspberry Pi. He’s passionate about tools that amplify builders’ impact and reducing cognitive load in software, and brings a rare mix of systems-level experience and interest in accelerated learning and engineering culture.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Engineering (part-time), MSc, Software Engineering (part-time) at University of OxfordJunior College, Science with Economics, May have passed, Junior College, Science with Economics, May have passed at St. Xavier's CollegeMaster of Science - MS, High-Performance Computing, Mathematics, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, High-Performance Computing, Mathematics, Distinction at Trinity College DublinBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Triple Major: Physics, Mathematics and Electronics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Triple Major: Physics, Mathematics and Electronics at Christ University, Bangalore
English, French, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (42)
tower9
leiningen9
babashka9
rust9
docker8
paas8
infrastructure8
cargo8
rust-lang8
devops8
web-framework6
explore6
clojurescript5
music5
react-redux4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shaaza/app-api-server
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
shaaza/text-adventure-game
Apr 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years 8 months
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