Vishal Shah

Current

• Chief Architect at Ask.com

Past

• Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Ask.com
• Senior Software Engineer at PTC
• Undergraduate Research and Teaching Assistant at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• Golden Gate University

Recommended

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Connections

111 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Vishal Shah’s Summary

I like useful technologies and love building it.

Vishal Shah’s Specialties:

innovation, software, web, performance, internet, browsers, servers, java, c++, python, javascript

Vishal Shah’s Experience

• Chief Architect

  Ask.com

  (Public Company; IACI; Internet industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

  Research, evaluate, prototype, recommend, and help design the end to end technology stack and working closely with team leads to help align and "marry" the business needs with the technology infrastructure and applications.

• Software Engineer, Tech Lead

  Ask.com

  (Public Company; IACI; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — October 2009 (2 years )

  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 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

• Golden Gate University

  MS , Software Engineering , 2000 — 2002

Additional Information

Vishal Shah’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Vishal Shah’s Interests:

innovation, leadership, problem solving, software, web, internet, r&d, c++, python, java, javascript, programming

Vishal Shah’s Groups:

ACM, ICPC, BayCHI

•    BayCHI
•    NetSquared
•    Golden Gate University
•    Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA)
•    Academy of Art San Francisco
•    Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group
•    University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA)
•    University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) Grads
•    University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Computer Science and Engineering Department
•    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
•    Add-on-Con
•    Seinfeld Enthusiasts!! - "A Group About Nothing" 129 West 81st Street Apt 5A, New York, NY ;-)
•    UMN-EECS
•    Google IO 2009

Vishal Shah’s Honors:

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

Vishal Shah’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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