Aalok Shah

About Aalok Shah

Engineering Manager, Full Stack Software Developer, and Product Owner with practical…

Experience

1. VP Cross Desk Strats Developer Velocity

   Morgan Stanley

   Mar 2019 — Present

   The x42 platform has backend support for KDB/Q, Python, and Java and provides a web-based frontend framework with support for Chrome, Safari, and iOS. The library is designed to replace basic modeling in Excel with a real-time data connection and a web browser. With a few tags, you can import live data into a Pivot Table, Chart, or a scrollable table that supports 1B+ rows. You have the full expressive power of HTML with AngularJS, React, or Angular and a large collection of widgets and tooling to make your apps quick, powerful, and easy to use. Responsible for leading, designing, developing, supporting, and evangelizing the x42 development platform inside Morgan Stanley. Also responsible for writing articles, giving presentations, and creating examples to help the Strats organization move towards best practices and improve developer velocity. All members of our team work across the entire framework and respond to our users quickly, preferably with examples. Technologies used: AngularJS, Angular, React, JavaScript, HTML5, Highcharts, Node, Bootstrap, CSS, Python, Java, Gulp, Webpack, Bash

Education

• University of Illinois

  MS, Electrical Engineering

  2003 — 2004

• Streamwood High School

  High School

  1995 — 1999

• University of Illinois

  BS, Computer Engineering

  1999 — 2002

Skills

• Linux
• Web Development
• C++
• Web Applications
• Html 5
• Css
• C
• Mongodb
• Oauth
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Javascript
• Os X
• Rest
• Jquery
• Bootstrapping
• Rdbms
• Trading Systems
• Go
• Php
• Xslt
• Start-Ups
• .net
• Mysql
• Python
• Unix
• Sdlc
• C#
• Django
• Xml
• Html5
• Shell Scripting
• Thrift
• Java
• Sql