Shan Aminzadeh
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShan Aminzadeh is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building front-end–heavy full-stack applications, primarily using TypeScript, React, GraphQL and Node.js. He has led UX and product infrastructure efforts for large-scale observability platforms at Uber and Chronosphere (now part of Palo Alto Networks), shaping developer-facing consoles used by thousands of engineers. Shan is an active open-source contributor to observability projects, notably enhancing Perses’s dashboarding UX and contributing UI improvements to Uber’s M3 and Jaeger frontends. He combines deep UI craftsmanship—visual editors, preview tooling and polished table/formatting fixes—with back-end integrations for Prometheus and ClickHouse. Known for turning complex telemetry workflows into intuitive interfaces, he brings both product sensibility and systems-scale experience to developer tooling. An early NYC Uber engineer, he also has a history of shipping developer SDKs and APIs dating back to work at Panasonic and Google.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Persian
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
dashboard10
antd10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
prometheus10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
ant10
react10
aggregator9
observability9
monitoring9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
perses/perses
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
The CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus/Tempo - more data sources to come!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:264 reviews, 40 commits, 49 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shan primarily focused on enhancing the frontend of the Perses project, specifically implementing and improving the user interface for dashboard template variables. They added new features like a visual editor for variables and the ability to preview values within the UI. They also contributed to the integration of Prometheus data sources by developing the necessary plugins and components. The contributions reflect a strong focus on improving the user experience and expanding the functionality of the dashboarding capabilities.
cncf-projectdashboardmonitoringobservabilityprometheus
m3db/m3
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Shan primarily focused on improving the user interface of the M3 platform, particularly the UI components within the `/ctl/ui/` directory. Their contributions involved implementing new features, fixing bugs related to the policy editor and rollup rules. The user also addressed UI styling issues, added helpful text, and made improvements to table formatting.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
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