Shelby Cohen
Senior Staff Software Engineer at ServiceNow
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShelby Cohen is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer productivity tools. Currently focused on AI Platform work at ServiceNow, Shelby has progressed through senior engineering roles at Twitter, Transposit, and a multi-year tenure at Intuit where she led cross-platform initiatives and developer tooling. She has hands-on expertise in Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, AWS, reactive and performance testing, and has driven features that materially improved testing throughput and production reliability for high‑scale consumer products. Shelby combines technical leadership with mentorship and hiring experience, having co-led learning communities, run public talks, and served on diversity and recruitment committees. Her background spans full-stack and infrastructure work, and she’s known for turning complex testing and performance challenges into repeatable developer-facing products. A former teaching assistant and early co-op contributor, she brings both academic rigor and practical, production-hardened engineering to large teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW SydneyNeedham High SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Mathematics Minor, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Mathematics Minor at Ithaca College
Github Skills (44)
kotlin-dsl8
semantic-versioning8
jira8
polymorphism7
kotlin-library7
auto-release7
monads6
slack6
semantic-release6
kotlin6
project-reactor6
replay5
webflux5
versioning5
coroutines5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katielevy1/spring-petclinic-rest-fork
May 2019 - Feb 2020
REST version of the Spring Petclinic sample application
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 10 months
spring-bootspring-mvcspringrestsample-application
ShelbyCohen/ProgLngsLexer
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 8 issues in 1 month
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