Vishal Shah

Vishal Shah

Chief Architect at Ask.com | v@vishalshah.org

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
Education
  • University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  • Golden Gate University
Connections
109 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

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:

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
  •    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
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
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