Varun Shah
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Shah is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems across AWS and GCP. He has deep hands-on expertise in Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue), RDBMS and NoSQL databases, plus advanced knowledge of cloud, container and DevOps tooling to deliver scalable APIs and services. At Oracle and previously on AWS API Gateway, he has focused on production-grade reliability, security (OWASP-aware) and infrastructure automation. He contributes to open-source projects such as Expertiza, where he improved UTF-8 handling and test coverage for backend systems—an indication of his attention to internationalization and code quality. Varun combines academic rigor from an MS in Computer Software Engineering with a history of cross-domain internships (DreamWorks media pipelines to healthcare search) that underscore his versatility and practical problem-solving. Colleagues describe him as proactive, communicative, and continually curious about emerging cloud and security technologies.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
utf10
rails10
schema-design10
ruby10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
schema10
database-migrations9
rspec9
ruby-on-rails9
database-migration9
rails-app8
expert8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 1 issue in 5 months
Contributions summary:Varun primarily contributed to back-end aspects of the Expertiza web application. Their work involved database schema modifications, particularly focusing on adding UTF-8 support and updating the schema. The user also addressed code quality issues, by removing non-ASCII characters and resolving code climate errors in the application controller and response controller. Further contributions included adding Rspec tests to validate UTF-8 character handling and performing sanitizations in the views.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
varun196/AES128
May 2019 - Sep 2020
Django - REST app for AES encryption/decryption
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangoaesaes-encryption
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