Samir Shah

Samir Shah is an operating partner at Cervin. He focuses on pre and post-investments that include sourcing, investing, onboarding, and portfolio company building. He also oversees the Cervin brand and content strategies. Samir’s investment focus areas are DevOps/Tools, Industry SaaS, Retail Tech, and Quantum Computing.

As a Silicon Valley native for 30 years, Samir held engineering and executive positions at multiple tech startups. Most recently, he founded and ran Zephyr, a cloud-based enterprise testing company that SmartBear acquired in 2018. The products he designed continue to remain at the top of the charts on the Atlassian Marketplace and are being used by millions of testers worldwide. Before Zephyr, Samir headed the quality line-of-business at Patni Computers and quality engineering at PointCast, Attachmate, and Wollongong.

Samir holds an MS in EE from The University of Alabama, where he was recently named a Distinguished Engineering Fellow. He has also completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.