Tina Shah
Director, Application Development
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolTina Shah is a seasoned software leader and Director of Application Development in the Greater Chicago Area with over 20 years designing and delivering web, mobile, and interactive-exhibit experiences. She blends hands-on full‑stack development (React, PHP/Laravel, Drupal, native iOS/Android) with cross-functional program leadership, having managed multiple engineering teams and production pipelines for museums and consumer-facing platforms. Her career spans notable cultural institutions—Shedd Aquarium, Art Institute of Chicago, Field Museum—and consumer tech at SpotOn, reflecting an unusual mix of humanities-driven product empathy and commercial product delivery. An educator by training with an MFA in Electronic Visualization, she often translates emerging technologies (3D/360 tours, multi-touch, AR) into compelling, user-centered exhibits and apps. Known for collaborating across design, curatorial, and engineering teams, she excels at turning scholarly content and institutional goals into intuitive, scalable digital experiences.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.F.A., Electronic Visualization, M.F.A., Electronic Visualization at University of Illinois at ChicagoB.A., Interactive Multimedia, B.A., Interactive Multimedia at Columbia College Chicago
English, Gujarati, French
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Github Skills (74)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
art-institute-of-chicago/ChicagoCodeX
Feb 2015 - Nov 2021
An authoring and publishing environment for online catalogues with full scholarly apparatus
Contributions:24 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 years 10 months
publishingcataloguesopen-accessphpauthoring
surreal8/linked-jazz-network
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 132 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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