Aatman Shah
Experienced Software Engineer based in Sacramento, CA. Passionate about building scalable, performant backend systems and infrastructure.
Backend Systems
AWS & Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Experience
Smartsheet
Software Engineer II - Platform
May 2022 – Present
- Worked on designing and launching a new decoupled service, leading the migration of public API traffic. Drove performance tuning, bug resolution, and stability improvements during rollout, ensuring a smooth transition for millions of customer requests.
- Scaled a real-time data aggregation service to reliably process 10 - 12M requests/day by migrating from EC2 to ECS Fargate, implementing a stateless S3-based cache, and automating infrastructure with Terraform/Terragrunt, cutting p99 latency by 19%.
- Built event-driven, serverless applications with AWS Lambda, SNS, and SQS to manage core service state, enabling a scalable and cost-efficient architecture with an emphasis on fault tolerance and reliability.
- Led initiatives to improve monitoring and alerting, reducing mean time-to-resolution (MTTR) for critical production incidents by over 30% and enabling faster debugging during on-call rotations.
General Motors
Software Engineer
Mar 2020 – May 2022
- Decomposed monoliths into microservices improving performance by 3–5x; implemented parallel request processing.
- Integrated Apache Kafka for async messaging; deployed via Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Used Java, Spring, API Gateways, MySQL, IntelliJ, CI/CD tools.
Nisum Technologies
Software Engineer, Intern
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019
- Built backend for a RESTful e-commerce system using Java + Spring.
- Migrated the service to Azure and set up Jenkins for CI/CD.
Beehive AI
Software Engineering Intern
Feb 2019 – May 2019
Intel
Firmware Validation Intern
Jun 2016 – Aug 2016
Education
Santa Clara University – B.S. Computer Science (2016 – 2019)
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, Data Structures, OOP, Networks, Logic Design, Software Design
Hobbies
🎳 Bowling
📈 Finance
🧠 Philosophy
🚗 Automotive
🚀 Space