Yash Shah
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYash Shah is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in web and full-stack systems, currently building core capabilities at Affirm in Seattle. He blends hands-on coding with architecture and platform ownership, having led web teams, migrated monoliths to domain services, and automated cloud infrastructure across Node.js, React, Django, and AWS. A former founder and Director of Web Technology at Stasis Labs and co-founder of Appbase.io, he has shipped production realtime databases and grown engineering teams from the ground up. Yash favors minimal, clarity-first design and writes clean, scalable code that teams can quickly iterate on, and he pairs deep technical leadership with day-to-day mentoring. Notably, his startup experience includes an acquisition and he’s spoken about technology in 25+ countries, reflecting a rare mix of product savvy and global developer outreach.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information and Communication Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
565reputation
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Github Skills (121)
realtime10
maps10
search-ui10
javascript9
ui-components9
appbase9
react9
deprecated9
vue9
client-library8
shiny8
elasticsearch8
aws8
flutter8
documentation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yashshah/meeting-scheduler
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:59 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
yashshah/yashshah.com
Apr 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
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