# Aakash Shah

> Software Engineer at GitHub

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aakashshah

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2020 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
I have rotated and acted as a technical lead (Anchor) through many teams while at Pivotal.

Ops-Manager

* Technical lead for a Ruby-on-Rails application for deploying all Pivotal related products.
* Skills: Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails, AWS, Azure, OpenStack, GCP, vSphere

CloudFoundry API (CAPI)

* Open source project of the primary user-facing API for the entire CloudFoundry platform.
* Helped lead team through several large-scale refactors (code-quality, system architecture).
* Worked with several open-source contributors in the CloudFoundry community
* Skills: Ruby, API, System Design, CloudFoundry

Pivotal Single-Sign-On

* Technical lead of a self-service for securing access to deployed CloudFoundry applications.
* Worked heavily with Engineers, Product, and Leadership to revamp team to Pivotal Practices.
* Helped refactor heavy amounts of code debt from codebase.
* Skills: Java, Spring, React, Refactoring, OAuth2, JWT, SAML, LDAP, AuthN/Authz

BOSH

* Technical lead of open-source project for deploying distributed software
* Helped maintain base operating system for all VMs deployed by the BOSH platform
* Helped maintain core DNS for facilitating VM <-> VM communication.
* Skills: Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Linux, DNS

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aakash-g-shah

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Last updated: 2026-03-30