Taimur Shah
Chief Technology Officer at Harvard's Growth Lab
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTaimur Shah is a technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building production-grade software and founding revenue-generating engineering teams that bridge research, policy and product. He blends deep technical chops from roles at IBM and startups with applied development economics from an MPA/ID at Harvard Kennedy School, currently researching economic development and climate resilience using data and large language models at Harvard’s Growth Lab. At CERP he launched and scaled CERP Labs into a self-sustaining software unit delivering education, healthcare and COVID-response products, and he advised national industrial and pension reform in Kazakhstan at the presidential level. Comfortable moving between systems architecture, product engineering and policy analysis, he specializes in turning economic research into practical, deployable digital tools. Based in Somerville, MA, he pairs hands-on engineering with evidence-based, theoretically grounded approaches to entrepreneurial action.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) Development Economics and International Development, Masters in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) Development Economics and International Development at Harvard Kennedy SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Major: Computer Science Minor: Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS Major: Computer Science Minor: Economics at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (100)
neo4j-driver10
geographic9
bolt9
telegram-bot9
neo4j9
bots9
spatial9
py2neo9
discord-bot9
rabbitmq-client9
conversations9
driver9
rabbitmq8
geopandas8
neo4j-ogm8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
taimur38/sketchpad
Aug 2017 - Oct 2022
threejs sketchpad
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
threejswebgl
taimur38/toombot
May 2016 - Apr 2018
A bot that improves conversations
Contributions:287 commits, 6 PRs, 183 pushes in 1 year 11 months
telegram-botbotdiscord-botconversationsbots
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