Shalini Pyapali
Software Engineer at Recurse Center
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShalini Pyapali is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and backend systems, currently based in New York. She has delivered production features at scale across roles at Meta/Facebook, startups, and fintech/DeFi teams, spanning Python, Ruby, Flask/Django, Rails, SQL and modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Redux. Her work blends backend rigor—designing recommender systems and robust REST APIs—with front-end polish and testing discipline, evidenced by a restaurant recommender implementation in an educational open-source curriculum. At Meta she shipped tools that improved hiring equity and candidate preparation, and earlier roles show a knack for mentoring and curriculum development that amplifies team impact. She moves comfortably between prototype and production, with experience in cloud, Docker, and data-driven feature design. Collected across diverse domains (healthcare integration, recruiting platforms, on‑chain roboadvising), she brings pragmatic engineering coupled with a strong emphasis on measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of California, DavisFull Stack Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyMonta Vista High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
data-structures10
object-oriented-programming10
python10
data-structure10
algorithms9
ionic-framework6
android6
google-play-services6
javascript4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Techtonica/curriculum
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
This repo contains the curriculum of Techtonica, a free tech training program for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 15 pushes, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shalini's primary contribution is the implementation of a restaurant recommender system using Python. The commits show the development of classes for users, restaurants, tags, and ratings, along with methods for adding and filtering data. Key features include adding ratings, calculating average scores, and prioritizing restaurants, indicating a focus on the core backend logic. The code demonstrates object-oriented programming principles and data structure usage.
curriculumtechtonicajavascriptplacementwomen
spyapali/unlocking_intelligence
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Interesting coding challenges that can be attempted by engineers trying to learn technologies.
Contributions:8 PRs, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
engineerstechnologiesinteresting
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