Shiva Talwar
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at HBO
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolShiva Talwar is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech lead based in Palo Alto with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across media and cloud platforms. Currently leading engineering efforts at HBO, he has a strong background in distributed systems and real-time data replication from his AWS work and SDE roles at Amazon and IMDb. His early career blends embedded systems and computer vision—designing FPGA/Linux reference designs and OpenCV defect-detection algorithms—giving him a rare full-stack perspective from silicon to services. Known for shipping pragmatic MVC and asynchronous architectures, he pairs hands-on implementation with technical leadership to move complex projects into production. Outside product jobs he showcases projects on his personal site, reflecting a continuous maker mindset beyond standard corporate deliverables.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Excellent Standing, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Excellent Standing at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (32)
development-kit10
aws-cloud10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
ios9
terraform9
ruby9
android9
cloud-development-kit9
automation9
infrastructure-as-code9
android-apps9
infrastructure9
fastlane8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shivatalwar/react-redux-sandbox
Dec 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
shivatalwar/FollowCam
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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