About

Riken Shah is a highly skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in backend development, distributed databases, and big data. He has a passion for working at the intersection of data science and software engineering paradigms and excels in this area. Riken has over 2 years of full-time experience working with AWS Redshift, where he contributed to improving commit performance and developing cluster relocation and disaster recovery features. He also has 1 year of part-time experience in full-stack and Python development, natural language processing, and data science. Riken has experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and container orchestration. He is a Computer Science Graduate Student from NC State University with a GPA of 4/4. Riken has numerous academic and extracurricular projects in full-stack, Python, and big data, including Apache Kafka, HBase, Flink, Spark, and Cassandra. He has experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, MEAN Stack, Async and parallel processing, lambda, and microservices architecture. Riken is proficient in multiple programming languages, including Python, Java, Node.js, C, C++, R, and Ruby. He is also skilled in web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Django, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, and AngularJS. Riken has experience with databases such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Hbase. He is also knowledgeable in big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, and MapReduce. Riken has experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Heroku, and mLab. He is also proficient in DevOps tools such as Docker, Jenkins, and CI/CD. Riken has experience with architectures such as REST, MVC, Microservices, and Lambda. He is skilled in tools such as NLTK, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Scrapy, and Beautiful Soup. Riken has won several awards and accolades, including IEEE Conference Publication and Presentation, first prize at PackHacks 2018 and PackHacks 2019 (Intercollege hackathons at NC State), 1st Runner-up at iHack 2017 (AppState, NC), and Best social media prize at Make-A-Thon 2018. Riken has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from D.J.Sanghavi College of Engineering and a Master of