Sunil Shah is a seasoned engineering leader and computer scientist with 13 years building and managing large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native compute infrastructure. He has led teams at Airbnb, Databricks, Yelp and Mesosphere responsible for Kubernetes and Mesos fleets that run thousands of services and serve tens of millions of users, driving reliability, cost savings, and full-stack migrations. Comfortable both as a hands-on backend engineer (contributions to Marathon/Apache Mesos test stability and disk resource handling) and as a manager, he blends technical depth with hiring, mentorship, and product-focused roadmaps. He has repeatedly driven organizational changes—merging teams to reduce technical debt, instituting on-call drills and pre-mortems for IPO readiness, and shipping continuous delivery and patch management processes. Based in Orinda, CA, Sunil is an advocate for open source and developer experience, with a track record of upstream contributions and public speaking at KubeCon and MesosCon. His background spans investment banking to consumer music tech, giving him a pragmatic, cross-domain perspective on scaling complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Arts (MA (Cantab)) Computer Science, Master of Arts (MA (Cantab)) Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:99 commits, 36 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sunil primarily focused on fixing non-deterministic tests within the Marathon store, demonstrating a focus on the application's core functionality and stability. They also made changes to handle disk resources, modifying both the front and back end of the application. In addition, the user contributed to refactoring and merging various branches, indicating involvement in overall code maintenance and integration efforts. These contributions suggest a focus on stability, feature implementation, and overall code management.
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Sunil Shah - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic