# Tapan Shah

> Engineer at xAI / X (formerly Twitter)

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tapan

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ xAI
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Member of Technical Staff @ xAI
Jan 2025 – Present | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Staff Software Engineer @ X
Jan 2024 – Present | Toronto, ON

### Senior Software Engineer @ X
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Technical Lead @ Twitter
Jan 2021 – Present

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco

### Software Engineer II @ Twitter
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco

### Software Engineer @ Alation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Developer @ Hubdoc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Toronto Area, Canada

### Teaching Assistant | Sessional Instructional Assistant @ University of Toronto Mississauga
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Mississauga
Courses: 
 CSC347: Introduction to Information Security (2014, 2015, 2016)
 CSC309: Programming on the Web (2015)
 CSC427: Computer Security (2016)

### Software Developer, Student @ BlackBerry
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Waterloo, Ontario
• Implemented an automation framework for Olympia Cloud Services which minimized manual
testing and enabled regression testing
• Assisted in development and upgrading of code base from using oracle & mysql databases to
Cassandra keyspaces for storage of user metadata
• Wrote Pig scripts to scan production Hadoop servers for exceptions and to generate reports
• Developed an Android and a BlackBerry 10 mobile app for an asset tracking application as
part of an internal Hackathon

### Web Application Developer @ Streampoint Solutions Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics
University of Toronto


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tapanshah9

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Last updated: 2026-04-12