# Riken Shah > Engineering Tech Lead at LinkedIn Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rikenshah Professional work experience in backend development, distributed database, and big data. Enjoy and excels in working at the intersection of data science and software engineering paradigms. ➤ As part of AWS Redshift team, contributed to improving commit performance via enhanced commit protocol along with improving reliability and flexibility of the service via developing cluster relocation and disaster recovery features. (Around 2 years of full-time experience) ➤ 1 year of part-time experience in the field of full-stack and python development, natural language processing, and data science ➤ Experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and container orchestration ➤ Computer Science Graduate Student from NC State University (GPA 4/4) ➤ Numerous academic and extracurricular projects in the field of full-stack, python, big data (Apache Kafka, HBase, Flink, Spark, Cassandra) ➤ SQL and NoSQL databases, MEAN Stack, Async, and parallel processing, lambda, and microservices architecture ➤ Experience with AWS EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and other AWS tools SKILLS ● Languages: Python, Java, Node.js, C, C++, R, Ruby ● Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Django, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS ● Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Hbase ● Big Data: Spark, Kafka, Flink, MapReduce ● Cloud: AWS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Heroku, mLab ● DevOps: Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD ● Architectures: REST, MVC, Microservices, Lambda ● Tools: NLTK, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Scrapy, Beautiful Soup ● Systems: Linux, OSX ● Agile: Scrum, TDD, Kanban, Jira ACCOMPLISHMENTS ▪ IEEE Conference Publication and Presentation: “Automatic Question Generation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems” ▪ First prize at PackHacks 2018 and PackHacks 2019 (Intercollege hackathons at NC State) ▪ 1st Runner-up at iHack 2017 (AppState, NC) ▪ Best social media prize at Make-A-Thon 2018 ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2026 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Sunnyvale, CA ### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California - Implemented an advanced commit protocol that separated compute from storage with flexibility of data storage and data sharing for more than 1000 customers across multiple AWS regions. - Improved commit performance using S3 as a cache spill store and reduced backup times using pre-push design. - Leveraged native AWS services like S3 and DynamoDB to scale cluster storage and compute capacities in the order of Petabytes. - Built disaster recovery protocol with topology persistence to achieve near RTO-0/RPO-0 recovery to the latest successful commit even in case of failure, increasing the service availability for customer clusters. - Collaborated across multiple teams to drive product components from design to completion incorporating reviews, automated test plans, multi-phase deployments, and consistent maintenance across the fleet. ### Backend Developer Co-op @ Hearful Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area - Worked on Alexa skill to incorporate analytics and insights (Node.js, Alexa, AWS Lambda) - Developed dialog management systems - Implemented an authentication system for user session management ### Backend Developer Intern @ Hearful Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Developing data mining and processing tools to provide business intelligence insights by implementing data science and natural language processing algorithms. Technologies: Python, GenSim, Spacy, Scrapy, CI/CD (GitLab), AWS, PyTest, Airflow, Docker ### Full Stack Software Engineer (Part-time) @ North Carolina State University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Designed and developed a tutoring system to aid students to learn a language with movable word and character tiles responding to haptic input along with dynamic feedback and evaluation. Technologies: Python, Django, Javascript, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, SQL, AWS, Docker ### Independent Researcher (Part-time) @ Laboratory of Analytical Sciences, North Carolina State University Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area - Analyzed state-of-the-art technologies in the field of claim-evidence identification using sentence similarity measures by parsing syntactic and semantic information from the sentence - Designed and implemented a combination of more than one measures to obtain good accuracy on claim-evidence identification and association process - Evaluated the results by analyzing the human response to the task and comparing it with the system generated output, achieving better accuracy than the current state of the art - Leveraged amazon (AWS) lambda functions to scale the applications to other platforms like mobile and tablets ### Software Development Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mumbai Area, India Software development Internship at Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) (later Acuradyne)- IIT Bombay - Devised an algorithm for prediction of anomalies in patient's arterial pulse, using various signal processing, data analytics, and machine learning concepts - Implemented Baseline Correction algorithm for initial correction of single dimensional pulse wave using Python and Matlab - Improved the anomaly detection algorithm to incorporate real time readings and predictions - Collaborated with other team members to work and contribute to various ongoing healthcare projects which required software development ### Technical Head - DJCSI Student Chapter @ Computer Society of India Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai Area, India - Developed and maintained a website to showcase the events and other important information about the organization - Managed a team of seven junior students who worked as a part of the technical team - Organized various events like Hackathon, workshops, seminars and an Industrial Visit - Conducted and taught in a one day workshop on 'Web Development using HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap' ### Software Development Intern @ Tacto Infomedia Private Limited Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India - Constructed various independent modules of web project using Laravel and MongoDB - Engineered variety of responsive web modules for a Client project using technologies like Bootstrap and JQuery - Improvised various Front-end modules of a web application (www.homz.in) to enhance the user experience ### Physics Tutor (Part-Time) @ Ritesh Tutorials Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Andheri - Devised a dynamic algorithm to automate the process of post-lecture question generation using a trained model - Taught high school physics concepts and conducted lectures to teach problem-solving strategies for various competitive exams like MT-CET and JEE-Mains ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science North Carolina State University ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering D.J.Sanghavi College of Engineering ### High School in Computer Science Acharya A. V. Patel Junior College ### Secondary School (class X) Smt. R. N. Sheth Vidhyamandir ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shahriken --- Source: https://flows.cv/rikenshah JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rikenshah/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12