Neel Shah
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolNeel Shah is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience based in Vienna, currently maintaining core backend SDKs at Sentry and contributing to the widely used sentry-python and sentry-ruby projects. He focuses on integrations and reliability—fixing Django URL and tracing issues, improving serialization, and adding dynamic sampling and client-reporting features for Ruby and Rails. Before Sentry he was Technical Lead for MindMeister at Meister, combining hands-on engineering, DevOps and team mentoring across GCP, Rails and React stacks. He holds a dual B.Tech/M.Tech from IIT Bombay in electrical engineering and signal processing and spent time as a PhD student at ISTA in machine learning and computer vision, giving him research-grade rigor alongside production experience. Colleagues describe him as the type of engineer who blends deep algorithmic thinking with pragmatic, observable improvements to developer-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayPhD Student (Dropped out), Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Combinatorial Optimization, PhD Student (Dropped out), Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Combinatorial Optimization at Institute of Science and Technology Austria
English, German, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
monitoring10
error-reporting10
errorlog10
ruby-rails10
sentry10
tracer10
python10
django10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
sdk10
bug-tracking10
error-log10
crash-reports10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-ruby
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Sentry SDK for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:448 reviews, 127 commits, 368 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Neel implemented several features related to client reporting within the Sentry Ruby SDK. This included adding configuration options, refactoring transport logic to handle event sending and rate limiting, and implementing mechanisms to record and report lost events. They introduced client report functionalities to improve event tracking and error monitoring. The commits also touch on performance improvements and session tracking.
sentryerror-monitoringsentry-sdkrubysdk
getsentry/sentry-python
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The official Python SDK for Sentry.io
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:629 reviews, 54 commits, 324 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Neel primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Sentry Python SDK, particularly focusing on integrations. Their work included fixing Django-related issues like URL resolution and custom URLconf handling. They also addressed client-reporting problems related to tracing, incorporating measurements, and improved serialization, demonstrating a focus on code quality and SDK functionality.
sentry-iopythonsentrysdksentry-python
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