Kanishk Shah
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKanishk Shah is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building production systems in Python, JavaScript, and C++, currently working at Amazon Web Services after earning a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from USC. He blends applied machine learning, computer vision, and data engineering—shipping an automated drone-based solar-panel inspection system with 97% precision and drivingETL and dashboard solutions that improved query efficiency by 34%. Comfortable across the stack, he has deployed real-time defect-detection and recommendation systems, contributed to apps with 50,000+ downloads, and implemented scalable RESTful services on AWS. Known for rapid prototyping and measurable impact, Kanishk often reduces manual labor and operational cost through automation and smart data pipelines. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs academic rigor with product-focused execution and a continual appetite for learning emerging technologies.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBE - Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, BE - Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
Github Skills (15)
chat8
stock-trading8
ddpg8
slack8
finrl8
react-native7
python7
collaboration7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
javascript7
zulip7
electron6
apache6
ai5
quantitative-trading4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kanishkshah/Computer-Vision
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
kanishkshah/kanishkshah
Feb 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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