Ronak Shah

About Ronak Shah

Building products that users love and systems that scale effortlessly. With 10+ years in engineering spanning startups to enterprise, I bring a rare combination: the product instinct to identify what users truly need, the technical depth to architect systems processing millions of daily events, and the leadership experience to guide teams through ambiguity to measurable outcomes. Some recent highlights: • 0-to-1 Builder: Created products from scratch including unified data platforms and consumer applications generating $5M+ monthly revenue• Scale Architect: Designed event-driven systems processing 50M+ records daily, optimized critical workflows by 90%, retired 5 legacy systems• Product-Minded Engineer: Navigate complex stakeholder needs, drive technical roadmaps, translate user pain points into shipped features• Team Multiplier: Mentored 4 engineers to promotions while maintaining hands-on contribution to critical systemsI thrive at the intersection of technical excellence and business impact. Technical generalist engineer with deep expertise in backend systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms.Let\'s connect if you\'re tackling meaningful user problems or scale challenges.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead

   Foundation Medicine

   Apr 2019 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Designed and implemented a configurable rules engine platform using Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka and React, incorporating Domain Driven Design and Event Sourcing; slashed time-to-market for new genomic tests by 60%, retired 3 legacy systems, sped up development for future rule domains from a quarter to within 2 weeks• Spearheaded an optimization initiative, using Redis, Elasticsearch and JSONb memoization for efficient genomic rule filtering, searching, and execution; resulted in 90% faster patient report generation• Led cross-functional collaboration (genomics, oncology, data science, engineering, UX) to transform ambiguous scientific requirements into robust technical specifications. Utilized rapid prototyping, tiered documentation, capacity planning, strategic integration and automation testing and API standardization• Led the development of a unified genomic data platform using Kafka, AWS S3, DynamoDB accelerating insights generation by 30%. Retired 8 legacy company-wide used events across 4+ teams• Coached 3 engineering direct reports, leading to 2 promotions. Mentored 10+ junior and senior engineers

Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2014

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Openflow
• Gnu Tools
• Docker
• Microsoft Excel
• Node
• Xml
• Rest
• Software Development
• Python
• Unix
• Open Source
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Css
• C#
• Git
• Pki
• Ssl
• Html
• Vagrant
• Cryptography
• Ip Multicast
• Sql
• Linux
• Asp.net
• Html5
• Jquery
• Shell Scripting
• Tcp/Ip
• Node.js
• Express.js
• Mysql
• C
• Programming
• React.js
• Php
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Algorithms
• Saml 2.0
• Ipsec