# Kush Shah

> Senior Software Engineer at Fictiv

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kush

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the software industry. Skilled in C++, Node.js, Databases, Mean Stack, Java and HTML. Strong engineering professional with a Master's degree focused in Computer Engineering from New York University.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Fictiv
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked as Fullstack software engineer and collaborated closely with cross functional teams to develop multiple projects and features enhancing the fictiv platform using ReactJs and nodeJS.
• Lead the Project to integrate the fictiv platform with customers’ procurement system like coupa and sap ariba. Onboarded 10 new enterprise customers.
• Collaborated with product managers to refine user stories and requirements and ensuring successful sprints and 10% improvement in velocity.
• Orchestrated a complete revamp of the fictiv’s shipping service with led to reduction in shipping leakage.
• Contributed to a successful migration of monolithic application to a modern stack, enhancing system scalability and reducing server costs.
• Successfully released a hackathon project to integrate affiliate marketing with fictiv platform using leaddyno.

### Software Engineer @ Fictiv
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Samba TV
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
• Assisted in preparing project plans and worked on the backend of the system using Python, Flask and Postgres. Prepared the documentation for RESTful API design using Flask, SQLAlchemy and Alembic.

### Software Engineer @ Silo Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
• Developed the entire Backend infrastructure for the Silo App with NodeJs, Express and SQL. Created scalable RESTful APIs to communicate with large number of silo safes. Developed innovative features that were highly scalable, compatible and responsive. 
• Assisted in preparing project plans using project management tools. Setup the backend using Firebase and NodeJS. Developed a serverless backend for Mobile application with OAuth and NoSQL DB.

### Teaching Assistant @ NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
• Assisted the faculty in design of coursework and lab assignments for Data Visualization course. Helped students with their queries about D3.js. Taught JavaScript ES6, React Framework and database concepts.

### Software Engineer @ CodeGuard
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, NodeJs, Redis, Resque, Heroku, Git
• Responsible to develop an Uptime Monitor for the codeguard application’s dashboard.
• Developed the entire application in ruby and Sinatra framework.
• Created a program with NodeJS to asynchronously check the website status using the google chrome headless. We were able to scale the application to check large number of websites by increasing the workers. 
• Used RestAPIs to send data to the main codeguard application. Used Redis to queue jobs and schedule tasks for the workers.
• Created test cases using TDD with Rspec and minitest.
• Deployed the system on heroku and used semaphoreci to test every version on git.

### Web Developer @ New York University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York
Technologies: Javascript, HTML5, PHP
• Redeveloped the NYU College of Art and Science's cohort website to improve the user experience and make registration process easier for the new NYU students.
• Improved security of the web application using token based authentication such as JSON Web Token.

### Software Engineer @ Saggi Soft Solutions
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ahmedabad Area, India
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, MySql, Rabbit SVN, HTML5, CSS
• Developed an E-commerce website and worked on the frontend and the backend.
• In the frontend, we used javascript and jquery. We also used AJAX to reduce page reloads and improve the UI. 
• Designed the backend of the system using MySql. Implemented stored procedures and triggers in the database.
• The server-side scripting language used was PHP. We were able to process huge amounts of data and still achieve optimal performance.

### Software Engineer @ eInfochips
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Ahmedabad Area, India
Technologies: C, PHP, Google Maps API, Arduino
• Developed a vehicle tracking system that updates the position of the user on a google maps integrated website.
• The website was developed using PHP, javascript and google maps API.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Engineering
New York University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
Charotar University of Science and Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kush289shah
- Website: http://kushrshah.com/

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Source: https://flows.cv/kush
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kush/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22