Shahir Taj
Software Engineer at TransPerfect
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShahir Taj is a full-stack software engineer based in New York with 8 years of professional experience and a focused 3+ year track record building enterprise platforms in Python, C#/.NET Core, and TypeScript. He has delivered measurable impact across healthcare research and academic projects—optimizing workflows and cloud CI/CD to cut deployment times by 30% and boost operational efficiency and user satisfaction by 20–25%. Shahir combines front-end React/TypeScript expertise with backend API design (Node.js, .NET Core) and database migrations (MySQL→Postgres), plus hands-on NLP work using Universal Sentence Encoder to improve thematic detection accuracy. Comfortable designing end-to-end systems and infrastructure in Azure, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach and a knack for squeezing performance gains from both code and data.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Bowdoin College
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shahirtaj/starry-night-big-fish
Nov 2017 - Feb 2022
This program draws a picture of "Starry Night" and a big fish using turtle graphics.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
drawsnightturtle-graphicsstarrypicture
shahirtaj/use-concept-detection
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
CSCI 4000 - A: Advanced Independent Study
Contributions:70 commits, 26 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 7 months
csvcscipythonindependent
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