Varun Shah
Software Engineer at Zip
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVarun Shah is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable systems, currently at Zip after roles across AWS including SageMaker and security-focused teams. A Purdue Computer Science Honors student with a research background, he has applied ML and NLP to reverse-engineer cryptographic primitives, porting legacy tooling to modern C++ and PyTorch-based pipelines. His work spans backend services, security, and full-stack web apps—from leading high-impact internships that increased search accuracy and platform stability to production services at Amazon. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings a researcher’s rigor to practical engineering, often bridging academic insight and production constraints. Notably, he has experience creating custom testing frameworks and tooling that improved QA and deployment robustness. Always curious, he balances broad learning across software, ML, and security with a track record of shipping measurable product improvements.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
IBDP, IBDP at Dhirubhai Ambani International SchoolIntensive Studies, Computer Science, Intensive Studies, Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth (CTY)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science Honors, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science Honors at Purdue UniversityIGCSE, IGCSE at Oberoi International SchoolComputer Science, 96%, Computer Science, 96% at Stanford University
French, Hindi, English, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
xcode6
mobile6
aws-lambda6
ios6
nodejs6
javascript6
dictionary6
amazon-web-services6
postgresql6
security2
penetration-testing2
cybersecurity2
pentesting2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vsarunhah/vsarunhah
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
vsarunhah/compIA
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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