# About Jay Shah

Hey there, I'm Jay Shah. I'm a software engineer living in New York.

I started this blog to write about the things I learn building software, to share a bit of what I know, and to have something to look back on when I'm older. Writing has forced me to slow down and figure out what I actually think, and every so often a post turns out to be useful to someone else too.

If you're poking around, you'll mostly find writing on engineering, projects I've built, and the places I've traveled. Hope you find something fun or helpful here!

## Experience

- Radical AI (Sep 2026 - Now): Director of Software Engineering. Building self-driving labs where AI designs new materials and robots run the experiments.
- DataGrail (Jul 2020 - Sep 2026): Staff Software Engineer / Senior Engineering Manager. Data privacy platform enterprises use to run their privacy programs.
- Periscope Data (Acquired by Sisense) (Oct 2017 - Jul 2020): Senior Software Engineer. SQL-first analytics platform for data teams to query their warehouse and share dashboards.
- Workday (Aug 2013 - Oct 2017): Software Engineer. Cloud finance and HR platform for large enterprises.
- Riverbed (Jun 2012 - Sep 2012): Software Engineering Intern. Network and application performance monitoring.
- Splunk (Jun 2011 - Nov 2011): QA Intern. Platform for searching and analyzing machine data.

## Education

- UC Davis (Sep 2009 - Jun 2013): B.S. Computer Science & Engineering.