Shyam Vala
Co-Founder And CTO at a i p h a n t
Telangana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShyam Vala is a polyglot software leader and Co-Founder/CTO with 15 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and reliable delivery pipelines across startups and large media organizations. He has led engineering at NBCUniversal and multiple health- and manufacturing-focused startups, blending hands-on architecture, TDD, pair programming and continuous delivery to turn ideas into iterative, production-ready MVPs. At Small Joys he’s applied AI to streamline collaborative mental health care workflows, ending siloed care between PCPs, counsellors and psychiatrists. His background spans mobile, backend and ML-infused systems—Swift/Kotlin, NodeJS, Elixir, Python and containerized AWS deployments—paired with strong DevOps and test automation practice. Known as an "agility inducer," he habitually rewrites heavy processes into lean, XP-driven ways of working that scale across onshore and offshore teams. Unexpectedly, his engineering leadership often extends into product ergonomics and clinical workflows, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and domain empathy.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Electrical Engineering, Masters, Electrical Engineering at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Osmania University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (107)
appium10
webdriver9
test-automation9
windows9
automation9
automation-framework9
selenium9
ios9
benchmarking9
android9
aws-cloudformation9
w3c9
macos9
android-apps8
combinations8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shyamvala/mystique-etl
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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shyamvala/mystique
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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