# Shaan Sapra

> Software Engineer at Meta

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shaan

After taking the Ruby on Rails course at The Starter League in Chicago's 1871, I have grown to love the world of software development and programming. I am experienced in MVC architecture and web development along with the staging, testing, and deploying cycles of software development. I am always looking to solve meaningful challenges with innovative solutions and continually improve my technical skills.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed interoperable React/Golang application for application developers to manage
data services as custom resources on Kubernetes
– Architected, designed, and built Kubernetes Operator for MySQL with High Availability topology, Backup and Restore capabilities, TLS support, and Prometheus metrics endpoint
- Led new architecture for developer-enabled backup and restore and external TCP access in
Tanzu SQL data service for the CloudFoundry platform

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
– Designed and integrated certificate rotation procedure into Tanzu Operations Manager for 100+ certificates installed on customers‘ installations
– Integrated platform manager with multiple infrastructure providers such as availability zones in Azure, host groups in vSphere, and identity v3 in Openstack
– Enhanced platform manager with rsyslog support, API endpoints for granular control over platform deployments, and UI redesign with React

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Enova International
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, IL

### Software Engineer @ Enova International
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chicago

### Academy Track Lead @ Edge UChicago Entrepreneurship
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Chicago Innovation Exchange
•    Teach basics of web development to 20 students, covering HTML/CSS, Ruby syntax and object-       
     oriented design, and CRUD and MVC principles in Ruby on Rails

•    Organize students for both web design and web development class and manage roster through 
     Piazza classroom

•    Material available at https://github.com/edge-academy

### Engineering Intern @ Opower
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
• Adapted Rails application to handle new location-based functionality to communicate with iOS and
Android apps for thousands of customers using smart thermostats

• Collaborated with team leaders to develop new user interface and implement first draft in
AngularJS application to improve customer experience in controlling smart thermostats

• Upgraded legacy Customer Service Portal to provide more relevant customer status by modifying SQL view, creating new server endpoints, and updating AngularJS application to handle new data

### Software Engineering Intern @ Enova Financial
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Chicago, IL
•	Automated scheduling follow-up payments using internal API, Resque worker, and SQL query to streamline manual processes and re-allocate human resources

•	Improved call representative performance and customer experience by integrating internal API to implement faster and more responsive customer search 

•	Explored open source and paid proprietary solutions for speech recognition to translate call data into text for quality assurance and fraud analytics

•	Implemented Riak data storage as a means to lookup email metadata through MapReduce queries, secondary indices, and search as a proof of concept

•       Researched several distributed computing and data stores such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and Riak to assess scalability, MapReduce functionality, cluster management, and performance improvements 

•	Designed and implemented a Rails app to handle incoming HTTP requests and to create and update a poker game-state for two hackathons held for college students

### Administrative Assistant @ Great Clips, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Naperville, IL
•	Provided office services by entering daily sales reports and expenses into QuickBooks recordkeeping system for several business locations and organized office documents including invoices and reports

### Instructor @ Kumon
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Naperville, IL
• Graded student's homework for the past week and answered questions on topics that they were struggling with.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Economics
University of Chicago
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### The Starter League
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Neuqua Valley High School
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/shaan
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Last updated: 2026-03-22