Nehal Shah

Nehal Shah is the VP of Engineering at McMakler. Prior to McMakler, Nehal was the Director of Engineering at Babbel from January 2018 to June 2021. At Babbel, Nehal co-led the engagement tribe and revamped the hiring process to double the engineering headcount. Nehal also initiated the open source culture at Babbel by developing open source publishing guidelines and legal framework for licensing OSS.

Prior to Babbel, Nehal was the Delivery Lead at Zalando SE from January 2016 to December 2017. At Zalando, Nehal launched the Merchant Center and built 5 engineering teams to handle topics including inventory management, order management, and API gateway to support the Merchant Center. Nehal also created a 24x7 on-call team with standardized procedures including run books and fire drills.

Nehal Shah reports to Felix Jahn, Founder & CEO. They work with Matthias Knoche - VP, McVerkauf, Gerrit A. - COO, and Saskia Thies - Chief of Staff.