Neel Shah

Neel Shah is a seasoned software engineer with a comprehensive background in backend development and technical leadership. Currently serving as a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry since October 2021, Neel focuses on maintaining backend SDKs, notably contributing to the widely-used Sentry Ruby SDK with 58 million downloads. Prior to Sentry, Neel was a Technical Lead at Meister, overseeing the development of the MindMeister collaborative mind mapping SaaS, where responsibilities included software engineering, devops, and mentoring while utilizing technologies such as Google Cloud Platform and Ruby on Rails. Neel's experience also encompasses a range of roles at Pioneers.io, where leadership in engineering and devops was directed towards web services for event management and data analytics. Earlier roles include a brief tenure as a Software Engineer at Spectrum IT Solutions GmbH. Neel holds a dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and pursued a PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Combinatorial Optimization at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, though this program was not completed.