Vivek Shah
Staff Engineer at Samsung Denmark Research Center
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolVivek Shah is a Staff Engineer based in Copenhagen with 11 years of experience designing and building high-performance, large-scale computer systems. His background blends deep research—culminating in a PhD and postdoc at the University of Copenhagen focused on actor runtimes, databases and distributed systems—with hands-on industry work at Samsung Denmark Research Center and Deon Digital. He teaches and mentors routinely, having lectured advanced systems and co-advised theses, which informs his pragmatic yet research-driven engineering approach. Comfortable across databases, runtime systems and cloud-deployed applications, he has a history of optimizing performance and programmability in production and experimental settings. Notably, his career traces from early open-source and package maintenance work through research internships at Microsoft Research to leading platform-level engineering in industry, signaling both breadth and sustained technical curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of CopenhagenICSE, Science, ICSE, Science at Don Bosco SchoolISC, Science, ISC, Science at St James School KolkataMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Københavns Universitet / University of CopenhagenBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
Hindi, Bengali, English, German
Github Skills (26)
kotlin9
corda9
strict9
interoperability7
contract7
blockchain7
dlt7
cache-control7
distributed-ledger6
cpp5
lru5
compile-time5
pluggable5
memory-allocation5
caching4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bonii/silo
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:15 pushes in 4 years
bonii/oltpbench
Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push in 2 years 2 months
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