Tanish Shah standing in front of a window over the Tokyo skyline

Tanish Shah

Junior software developer based in Calgary. I love building full-stack applications, internal tooling, and experimenting with AI tools like Cursor, Claude, and OpenCode.

In my free time, I watch anime, read manga, and playing video games.

If you have any opportunities in software development, full-stack development, or AI tools, feel free to reach out to me!

Experience

  1. June 2025 – Present

    Software Developer, AI & Developer Tooling Team

    Neo Financial · Calgary, AB

    • Architected a secure MongoDB pipeline using Terraform, AWS EventBridge, S3, and EC2 to automate isolated transfer of 10TB sized database snapshots for internal teams to use production-like data
    • Developed automated smoke testing suites across 70+ GraphQL microservices in Docker, drastically accelerating root-cause debugging time within ephemeral environments by 30%
    • Built a TypeScript monorepo automating PII detection, field re-encryption, and data stripping across MongoDB snapshots for secure local development across users, banking accounts, transactions and merchants
    • Provisioned Datadog monitors and log pipelines via Terraform for real-time failure alerting across automated database de-identification workflows
    • Engineered an org-wide CLI distribution system wrapping Claude Code in Bash, enabling 300+ cross-functional employees to standardize and share custom AI skills, sub-agents and plugins
    • Designed and deployed a RAG-powered internal search engine using Python, LangChain, and Pgvector over Confluence knowledge bases, reducing query response times by 40% for 100+ CX agents
    • Automated secured credit account waiver processing with TypeScript, querying Snowflake metrics, evaluating fee eligibility, and executing GraphQL banking APIs or Jira escalations — saving 3 FTEs of manual effort

  2. Sep 2023 – Jan 2025

    Full Stack Software Developer Co-op

    Operto Guest Technologies · Vancouver, BC

    • Implemented single sign-on infrastructure using AWS Cognito and API Gateway, supporting responsive React + Material UI frontend and backend services to onboard property managers and hospitality business owners
    • Engineered a low-latency serverless CRUD API using TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Cognito, maintaining a sub-300ms response time to manage session state and SSO app permissions
    • Wrote Python Prefect migration scripts to onboard 30,000+ customer accounts to onboard users to new authentication flow
    • Maintained and enhanced .NET and PHP backend services for reservation, property, and guest management systems

  3. Dec 2023 – Feb 2024

    AI Software Developer Co-op

    Boardspace · Remote

    • Developed a Python RAG chatbot using LangChain, ChromaDB, and OpenAI embeddings to query 150+ PDF documents for non-profit users
    • Containerized FastAPI services with Docker and deployed them on AWS EC2

  4. Jan – Apr 2023

    Full Stack Software Developer Co-op

    Health Canada · Remote

    • Refactored 85% of a legacy React + Express.js application to TypeScript, improving code maintainability while accelerating data retrieval by 23% via optimized Elasticsearch queries
    • Engineered a Next.js administration portal to streamline role-based access control and employee permissions across 150+ partner organizations via secure REST endpoints
    • Expanded automated test coverage to 80% using Jest, preventing production regressions across core data processing components

  5. May 2025

    Bachelor of Science in Data Science

    Simon Fraser University · Burnaby, BC

Projects

Anime image board

Dexbooru

A taggable image board for anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture, built as several services. The web app, notification service, and AWS infrastructure are below. A separate Python service handles similarity search.

Other public work

Languages