About

Amish Shah is a highly skilled Software Engineering Lead, Architect, and Manager with over 25 years of experience in building complex products on different platforms. He specializes in distributed systems, cloud software, mobile device applications, web services, service-oriented architecture, web applications, programming, availability, and scalability. Amish is an expert in building complex systems incrementally and quickly, with a knack for understanding the pieces and the whole. He has a "do whatever it takes" attitude to get things done and loves learning new technologies. Amish's preferred role is as an Architect or Senior Individual Contributor that has some degree of design and responsibility, as well as ownership of some piece of code. He likes to keep his hands in the code to stay current with whatever he's working on, as well as with developing technologies. Amish has achieved several notable accomplishments, including building a distributed cloud and mobile application system, an education-tailored tablet, and a content editing and scheduling platform for Yahoo!. Amish is proficient in several programming languages, including Java, C++, Python, Objective C, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, and HTML. He has experience working with various operating systems/platforms, such as Linux, iOS, and Android, and is well-versed in Java technologies like J2EE, Spring, JSP, Hibernate, Struts, JDBC, RabbitMQ, JMS, etc. Amish has worked with servers like Jetty, Tomcat, Apache, and has experience with databases like MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra. He has also worked with distributed technologies like Spark, Elastic Search, and has experience with AWS, Docker, Vagrant, HA Proxy, REST, HTTP, and Networking. Currently, Amish is working as a Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks. Previously, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer/Architect at Qventus, Inc. and as a Principal Architect at Intel. Amish has an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a BE in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai. With his extensive experience and expertise, Amish is a valuable asset to any team looking to build complex systems and applications.