# Vishal Shah

> Staff Software Engineer ML Infra @LinkedIn

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vishalshah

Results driven and deliverable oriented Software Engineer with more than 8 years of industrial experience in developing large scale systems. Experienced working with mid to small engineering teams to achieve goals on a strict timelines.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ S5 Stratos
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
➢ Designed & Implemented high-performance, highly available, scalable, and robust application using Microservices Architecture.

➢ Led the initiative to migrate to a different database that decreased processing time to one tenth and increased scalability many folds.

➢ Enhanced the software performance by diving deep and optimizing the data access patterns, database schema. 

➢ Designed daily and weekly jobs as ETL process for the data sent by multiple clients.

➢ Led the entire software and data pipeline and ensured correct code and data reached the production instances.

### Watson IoT – Software Developer Intern @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Columbia, South Carolina
➢Collaborated with the IBM team to create meaningful demos, dashboards etc to exhibit capabilities of the Watson IoT platform.

➢Designed a framework that would assist the staff for effective maintenance and management of units.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of South Carolina-Columbia
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Columbia, South Carolina Area
➢Worked with Dr. Amir Karami for his SC floods research project by performing Topic modelling on social media data(Tweets).

➢The research also aimed at identifying the sentiment of people during the flood period and to provide a framework that would help design better disaster relief strategies for future events.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Department of Health Promotion, Education & Behavior
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Columbia, South Carolina
➢ Assisted the team of Dr. Xiaoming Li, Dr. Shan Qiao and Dr. Amir Karami in conducting research and designing a tool for automated literature review of research articles using Topic Modeling approach for Text Mining.

➢ Designed Web Crawler using Java to fetch articles from PubMed, CINAHL & ERIC medical databases, parse the relevant information and store the information in Text files, Documents and Spreadsheets.


## Education
### Master of Engineering (ME) in Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Carolina

### Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security Studies
University of South Carolina

### BE in Information Technology
Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shahvishal8464

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Last updated: 2026-04-12