Shiny Brar
Technical Lead & Software Manager at McGill University
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolShiny Brar is a Technical Lead and Software Manager with 10 years of engineering experience, currently leading an international team of data scientists and developers on the CHIME/FRB radio telescope at McGill University. A Physics Engineer by training, Shiny specializes in solving large-scale data, compute, storage, and infrastructure challenges for real-time scientific systems, operating pipelines that process over 8 TB/s and maintain a codebase exceeding five million lines. He progressed through hands-on engineering roles from junior to lead within the same flagship project, blending firmware and embedded-systems experience from SED Systems with high-throughput distributed software design. Known for pragmatic leadership, he balances technical ownership with team growth and cross-disciplinary collaboration across research and production. Based in Saskatoon, Canada, Shiny brings a telescope-builder’s mindset—precision, instrumentation experience, and a taste for ambitious, data-intense problems—to every system he architects.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at University of Saskatchewan
English, Punjabi, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (115)
python10
annotations10
django10
mypy10
graphql-schema10
docker-engine10
encoder9
sanic9
docker-swarm9
api9
science9
fastapi9
quantile9
asgi9
resolver9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chime-sps/FDMT
Jun 2022 - Dec 2023
GPU De-dispersion script
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cudagpudispersion
chime-frb-open-data/community
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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