Yash Shah
Technical Lead, Senior Software Engineer at Asana
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYash Shah is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in developer efficiency, full-stack web development, machine learning, and infrastructure engineering. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate with a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier, he has focused on build system optimization, sandbox/dev environments, and AI-driven developer tooling at Asana and Plaid. His recent work spans Bazel-based build systems, end-to-end testing, RAG pipelines, autonomous coding agents, and editor/IDE integrations to speed developer feedback loops. Comfortable in both product and infra layers, he blends hands-on coding with systems thinking to remove developer friction at scale. Based in New York, he’s known for translating research-grade LLM ideas into practical tooling—shipping agentic and chat-based workflows used by internal teams. Outside core work he mentors through SHAD and brings a business-minded approach from his dual degree background.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA at Wilfrid Laurier UniversitySir John A Macdonald Secondary SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (14)
python7
information-retrieval7
breeze6
nextjs6
chatgpt5
formatter5
npm-package4
bazel4
bazel-rules3
npm3
stock3
nodejs3
ai-chat2
finance2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yashhshah/yashhshah.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 5 months
ResuBuild/resubuild
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 day
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