Vishal V. Shah

Current

• Software Engineer, Web Applications at Ask.com

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at PTC
• Undergraduate Research and Teaching Assistant at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Connections

45 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Vishal V. Shah’s Summary

I started as a Software Engineer on the Ask.com web applications team. I am currently focused on few unannounced initiatives.

Vishal V. Shah’s Specialties:

innovation, software, web, performance

Vishal V. Shah’s Experience

• Software Engineer, Web Applications

  Ask.com

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; IACI; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year)

  Work on the Ask.com web site and application servers.

• Senior Software Engineer

  PTC

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — November 2007 (3 years)

  Web and Java server development on PTC collaborative server platform.

• Undergraduate Research and Teaching Assistant

  University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  Undergraduate research assistant with the GroupLens project at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. I wrote a thesis on increasing user participation in online communities.
  
  I was also a Teaching Assistant for the "Introduction to C/C++ Programming" class with Prof. Chuck (Charles) Swanson.

Vishal V. Shah’s Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  BS, Computer Science, 2002 — 2004

  Summa Cum Laude Latin Honors student

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, ACM

Additional Information

Vishal V. Shah’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Vishal V. Shah’s Interests:

innovation, leadership, software, web, r&d

Vishal V. Shah’s Groups:

ACM, ICPC, BayCHI

•    BayCHI
•    TechSoup NetSquared
•    Academy of Art San Francisco
•    Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group
•    University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA)
•    University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Computer Science and Engineering Department

Vishal V. Shah’s Honors:

Summa Cum Laude Latin Honors at The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) World Finalist

Vishal V. Shah’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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