Smit Shah
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSmit Shah is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-scale, resilient systems and leading cross-functional teams across e-commerce and platform infrastructure. He has driven mission-critical services at Flipkart (config and log systems serving thousands of services and petabytes of data) and led a 15+ member team at Udaan to improve uptime to 99.99% while reducing on-call incidents by 75%. An active open-source contributor, Smit significantly rewrote dependency resolution for Bundler and RubyGems and contributed core fixes to JRuby, improving performance and robustness in widely used Ruby tooling. He combines deep backend and systems expertise with product sensibility—having led a COVID-era nonprofit project to help thousands find essential medicines—making him effective at shipping reliable, user-impacting supply-chain products. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a track record of solving complex dependency, consistency, and scale challenges on commodity infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Science at RV College Of Engineering
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (20)
algorithm10
dependency-management10
algorithms10
jvm10
rubygems10
data-structure10
java10
ruby10
package-manager-tool10
javas10
bundler10
hashtable10
data-structures10
hash10
package-manager10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rubygems/rubygems
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Smit primarily focused on improving the dependency resolution algorithm within the RubyGems project. Their contributions included implementing an iterative algorithm for Bundler resolve, handling cyclic dependencies, and addressing conflicts. Furthermore, the user added features to resolve dependencies, particularly addressing conflicts in child dependencies. The user also made improvements to the error messages and added a dependency tree in case of version conflicts to help with debugging.
rubygemspackagingpackage-managerrubymruby
rubygems/bundler
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
Manage your Ruby application's gem dependencies
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Smit primarily focused on enhancing the dependency resolution algorithm within the Bundler project. Their contributions involved refactoring the resolver, handling cyclic dependencies, and addressing conflicts by considering parent gem versions. These changes aimed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the gem dependency resolution process. Further improvements included adding the ability to backtrack to earlier states to resolve more complex conflicts and also implementing features that prevent dependency loops.
dependenciesrubygemsbundlerrubydependency-manager
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