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Nishit Shah

Nishit Shah

Seasoned, forward-looking Software Engineer with 15+ years background in creating and executing innovative software solutions to enhance business productivity. Highly experienced in all aspects of the software development lifecycle and end-to-end project management, from concept through to development and delivery. Consistently recognised as a hands-on and competent leader, skilled at coordinating cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment to steer timely project completion within budgetary constraints.
  • Role

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    15 years

Skillsets

  • Ruby On Rails - 15 Years
  • React Js - 3 Years
  • Flutter - 3 Years
  • JQuery - 9 Years
  • Bootstrap - 6 Years
  • Postgre SQL - 10 Years
  • JavaScript - 15 Years
  • CSS3 - 10 Years
  • HTML5 - 10 Years
  • FullStack - 10 Years
  • Elasticsearch - 3 Years
  • Heroku - 6 Years

Professional Summary

15Years
  • May, 2019 - Present6 yr 1 month

    Technology Lead

    The Karta Initiative
  • Sep, 2015 - Apr, 20193 yr 7 months

    Software Consultant

    Case Commons
  • Oct, 2014 - Aug, 2015 10 months

    Engineering Manager & Technical Lead

    Case Commons
  • Jul, 2008 - Feb, 20123 yr 7 months

    Software Developer

    Nature Publishing Group
  • Feb, 2012 - Sep, 20142 yr 7 months

    Senior Developer

    Case Commons

Applications & Tools Known

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    jQuery

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    Bootstrap

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    Heroku

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    ReactJS

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    Flutter

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    HTML5

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    CSS 3

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    Javascript

Work History

15Years

Technology Lead

The Karta Initiative
May, 2019 - Present6 yr 1 month
    Built a holistic digital platform (Karta Connect) from the bottom up for disadvantaged youth to build awareness and skills, access opportunities, and connect with a community of professionals ready to provide mentoring and guidance. Programmed in Flutter allowing cross-platform app development, and Ruby on Rails that serves the APIs. Improved performance of the app to work efficiently in low-bandwidth environments and provide offline functionality.

Software Consultant

Case Commons
Sep, 2015 - Apr, 20193 yr 7 months
    Remotely worked as a software consultant for Case Commons across different teams, from building new features, to fixing bugs, to refactoring code in order to improve performance of the product.

Engineering Manager & Technical Lead

Case Commons
Oct, 2014 - Aug, 2015 10 months
    Managed developers and worked with other managers/leads to find ways to empower/grow the engineering team. Led a team focused on core parts of the product, for example, making our search engine more powerful by switching from Postgres search to Elasticsearch and allowing end users to configure certain parts of the product.

Senior Developer

Case Commons
Feb, 2012 - Sep, 20142 yr 7 months
    Worked on a case management system (Casebook) for child welfare. Programmed primarily in Ruby on Rails and React. Helped the product go live, and continue to extend and enhance it with a focus to modularise code into reusable components for use across multiple states in the USA. Led the effort to make our product accessible and aided in the creation of an open source Ruby gem (capybara-accessible) for automated accessibility audits. Presented at OCSON alongside Google on Automated Testing For Accessibility. Led the responsive design effort to make our product cross-browser and cross-platform compatible and created a pattern library in the process along with a testing system for catching visual regressions.

Software Developer

Nature Publishing Group
Jul, 2008 - Feb, 20123 yr 7 months
    Worked as a Software Developer in the New Product Development team following agile methodologies and test driven development. Program primarily in Ruby on Rails followed by Java and Scala with occasional Javascript and CSS. Responsible for delivering robust, well-designed solutions for products and services, both old and new.

Education

  • MS in Computer Science

    New York University (2008)
  • BE in Computer Engineering

    University of Mumbai (2006)