Shah Ahmed
Product Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShah Ahmed is a product leader with 8 years of experience building consumer and enterprise software, currently shaping observability products at Datadog after leading product at Kapwing. He brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering background and product strategy—having progressed from software engineer to Head of Product—enabling rapid feature delivery grounded in technical realities. Shah’s academic foundation in mathematics and economics from Cornell informs his data-driven approach to prioritization and metrics. He has experience across startups and larger firms (Kapwing, Workday, Indicative, Deloitte), which helps him translate ambiguous user needs into practical roadmaps. Shah also co-founded or is affiliated with projects like failflow.com and galeeb.com, signaling an entrepreneurial drive beyond his corporate roles. Based in New York, he focuses on product-led growth, measurable impact, and bridging cross-functional teams to ship with speed and quality.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Biomedicine, High School Biomedicine at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Arts and Sciences; Mathematics and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Arts and Sciences; Mathematics and Economics at Cornell University
Github Skills (17)
hugo10
datadog10
animation9
documentation9
react8
konva8
drag-and-drop8
node-canvas8
html5-canvas8
nodejs8
javascript8
typescript7
openai6
canvas6
desktop5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shahgahmed/nodeReactBoilerplate
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Simple node server serving endpoints + react client
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
reactservingnode-serverendpointsreact-client
shahgahmed/prof
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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