# Jinish Shah

> Software Engineer @ Frugal Innovation Hub | Microservices & Cloud Enthusiast | Scalable App Architect | Grad Student at SCU 🚀

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jinish

👋 Hey, I’m Jinish — engineer by passion, builder by mindset.
I live somewhere between a hot cup of tea, a midnight debug session, and the thrill of shipping something that actually works.

I don’t just write code; I architect systems end-to-end:  backends that scale, frontends that feel smooth, and apps that get smarter with a touch of AI.

Logs, tokens, queues, or clouds - I’ve built with them all. Sometimes it’s Kafka streams flying at warp speed, other times it’s a UI catching data straight from a model that thinks it knows better than me (spoiler: sometimes it does).

What I really do?
Turn messy problems into clean systems, ideas into running products, and team chatter into shipped features.

If it’s distributed, user-facing, or AI-powered, that’s my playground.
If it’s impossible, well… I’ll probably still give it a shot. 🚀

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ SCU Frugal Innovation Hub
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
Architecting and deploying intelligent infrastructure and AI-driven systems with a focus on scalable design, secure automation, and equitable access to educational technologies in underserved learning environments.

### Software Engineer @ Halfbyte Cloud Services
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
• Modernized a multi-rail payments gateway powering card, UPI, and QR transactions, with a focus on security, reliability, and developer experience.
• Rolled out card tokenization (Node.js/Fastify, PostgreSQL, AWS KMS) for saved-card checkout; achieved >90% token coverage in 6 weeks.
• Built token-first checkout flows with 3DS fallback, reducing PCI audit overhead and improving compliance posture.
• Strengthened UPI & QR payments with dynamic QR codes, signed webhooks, and deep-link fixes.
• Added BullMQ retries with exponential backoff and idempotent order states, cutting stuck payments by ~45%.
• Refactored reconciliation & settlements with Airflow, S3 ingestion, and PL/pgSQL, shrinking reconciliation cycles from 4h to ~20m.
• Automated merchant statements & exception reports, reducing payout disputes and write-off leakage.
• Implemented end-to-end observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, circuit breakers), authored runbooks, and enabled canary releases; MTTR improved from 90 to 18 minutes.
• Shipped multi-language SDKs (Node, Java, PHP) with GitHub Actions + OpenAPI docs, cutting partner integration time by ~40%.
• Standardized error codes & webhook payloads, lowering API support escalations by ~35%.
• Embedded compliance & security controls (TLS 1.2+, KMS/Vault rotations, CI scans), closing PCI/ISO audit findings.
• Improved developer experience with CI/CD pipelines, Postman collections, and sample apps, enabling faster partner go-lives.

### Web Developer @ Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
•	Contributed to developing and deploying a custom CMS for the university’s official website using Next.js, React.js, and Material UI, enabling dynamic content updates for 8,000+ students and staff.
•	Built secure backend services with Node.js and MySQL2, implementing JWT authentication and OAuth 2.0, and supporting maker-checker workflows for multi-role content management.
•	Integrated a 2-layer content approval system, automating publishing workflows by 70%, improving content accuracy and editorial traceability.
•	Improved performance by optimizing data models and frontend components, reducing load times by 40% and streamlining admin updates by 90%.
•	Deployed the project on a CentOS Linux server using PM2 for process management and Apache as a reverse proxy, ensuring stable performance in production.
•	Tested backend routes and workflows with Postman and Supertest, ensuring secure authentication, proper versioning, and reliable data flow across roles.
•	Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 4, contributing to API integration, route management, CMS admin interface, and deployment coordination.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
🔹 Initial groundwork for the university's CMS—architectural planning and early backend structuring—began during these internship, evolving into a full-fledged development later.

•	Upgraded the Faculty Appraisal Management System to align with updated institutional policies, reducing manual processing by 60% across departments.
•	Enhanced backend functionality using PHP and MySQL, adding new data structures and improving report generation for senior management dashboards.
•	Refactored API communication logic using RESTful protocols, improving data flow and scaling appraisal record handling by 60% across the university network.
•	Improved frontend–backend interaction using vanilla JavaScript and jQuery, enhancing form validation, UI responsiveness, and appraisal workflow accuracy.
•	Collaborated with internal stakeholders to gather new system requirements and deliver iterative updates aligned with university HR policies.

### Vice President @ Encode PDEU
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
•	Led and coordinated the development of 5+ university websites using PHP, JavaScript, and CSS, contributing to frontend architecture, backend scripting, and live deployment.
•	Refactored and modularized common features like auth, blogs, and user dashboards, creating reusable codebases that reduced development effort by 70% across projects.
•	Managed a GitHub-based collaborative workflow across a 20+ member student team, facilitating version control, code reviews, and continuous improvements.
•	Maintained the club’s public GitHub organization, showcasing open-source contributions and delivering reliable digital interfaces for student and departmental initiatives.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science and Engineering
Santa Clara University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Information Technology
Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shahjinish

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Last updated: 2026-04-10