Ish Vasa
Staff Software Engineer, Employer Risk at Justworks- Claim this Profile
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Shanie Jeanat
I have had the privilege of working with Ish over the last 3.5 years. During this period, I have been consistently impressed by both his technical and leadership skills. He has grown from being a Senior Engineer to an Engineering Manager, and his team has continually delivered high quality results ahead of schedule. Ish has shown great organizational and communication skills, ensuring that all members of the team have a complete understanding of their roles and objectives. He has distinguished himself as an excellent leader with a keen understanding of team dynamics, helping to create a fun, collaborative, and productive working environment. Additionally, his ability to judge when to intervene or let his team take the initiative is remarkable. I am confident that Ish could be an asset to any organization, and would gladly work with him again.
Christopher Lyver
Ish is a well-rounded engineering leader. We worked closely with each other for over three years at EquityZen, and during that time, I had the privilege of not only learning from Ish but also watching him strive to build a great engineering culture and community. He thrives in any opportunity where there are hard problems to solve. He is highly skilled at balancing both the hard and soft skills of engineering leadership and people management. Without hesitation, he us able to dive into murky problems and separate the signal from the noise. When he's done, you'll probably find him writing documentation on the matter, reprioritizing the roadmap, or mentoring a junior engineer. I look forward to the day when Ish and I have the chance to work together again.
Shanie Jeanat
I have had the privilege of working with Ish over the last 3.5 years. During this period, I have been consistently impressed by both his technical and leadership skills. He has grown from being a Senior Engineer to an Engineering Manager, and his team has continually delivered high quality results ahead of schedule. Ish has shown great organizational and communication skills, ensuring that all members of the team have a complete understanding of their roles and objectives. He has distinguished himself as an excellent leader with a keen understanding of team dynamics, helping to create a fun, collaborative, and productive working environment. Additionally, his ability to judge when to intervene or let his team take the initiative is remarkable. I am confident that Ish could be an asset to any organization, and would gladly work with him again.
Christopher Lyver
Ish is a well-rounded engineering leader. We worked closely with each other for over three years at EquityZen, and during that time, I had the privilege of not only learning from Ish but also watching him strive to build a great engineering culture and community. He thrives in any opportunity where there are hard problems to solve. He is highly skilled at balancing both the hard and soft skills of engineering leadership and people management. Without hesitation, he us able to dive into murky problems and separate the signal from the noise. When he's done, you'll probably find him writing documentation on the matter, reprioritizing the roadmap, or mentoring a junior engineer. I look forward to the day when Ish and I have the chance to work together again.
Shanie Jeanat
I have had the privilege of working with Ish over the last 3.5 years. During this period, I have been consistently impressed by both his technical and leadership skills. He has grown from being a Senior Engineer to an Engineering Manager, and his team has continually delivered high quality results ahead of schedule. Ish has shown great organizational and communication skills, ensuring that all members of the team have a complete understanding of their roles and objectives. He has distinguished himself as an excellent leader with a keen understanding of team dynamics, helping to create a fun, collaborative, and productive working environment. Additionally, his ability to judge when to intervene or let his team take the initiative is remarkable. I am confident that Ish could be an asset to any organization, and would gladly work with him again.
Christopher Lyver
Ish is a well-rounded engineering leader. We worked closely with each other for over three years at EquityZen, and during that time, I had the privilege of not only learning from Ish but also watching him strive to build a great engineering culture and community. He thrives in any opportunity where there are hard problems to solve. He is highly skilled at balancing both the hard and soft skills of engineering leadership and people management. Without hesitation, he us able to dive into murky problems and separate the signal from the noise. When he's done, you'll probably find him writing documentation on the matter, reprioritizing the roadmap, or mentoring a junior engineer. I look forward to the day when Ish and I have the chance to work together again.
Shanie Jeanat
I have had the privilege of working with Ish over the last 3.5 years. During this period, I have been consistently impressed by both his technical and leadership skills. He has grown from being a Senior Engineer to an Engineering Manager, and his team has continually delivered high quality results ahead of schedule. Ish has shown great organizational and communication skills, ensuring that all members of the team have a complete understanding of their roles and objectives. He has distinguished himself as an excellent leader with a keen understanding of team dynamics, helping to create a fun, collaborative, and productive working environment. Additionally, his ability to judge when to intervene or let his team take the initiative is remarkable. I am confident that Ish could be an asset to any organization, and would gladly work with him again.
Christopher Lyver
Ish is a well-rounded engineering leader. We worked closely with each other for over three years at EquityZen, and during that time, I had the privilege of not only learning from Ish but also watching him strive to build a great engineering culture and community. He thrives in any opportunity where there are hard problems to solve. He is highly skilled at balancing both the hard and soft skills of engineering leadership and people management. Without hesitation, he us able to dive into murky problems and separate the signal from the noise. When he's done, you'll probably find him writing documentation on the matter, reprioritizing the roadmap, or mentoring a junior engineer. I look forward to the day when Ish and I have the chance to work together again.
Experience
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Justworks
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United States
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Human Resources Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Staff Software Engineer, Employer Risk
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Sep 2023 - Present
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EquityZen
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United States
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineering Manager
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Feb 2023 - May 2023
- Led the platform domain team, spearheading the transformation of a 10-year-old legacy monolithic application into a modern micro-service architecture. (Ex: leveraged Kafka/CDC to build out a highly scalable system to send notifications)- Collaborated closely with the infrastructure team to create language-agnostic micro-service templates, resulting in the seamless creation of new services within a day. Notably, successfully spun up and operationalized a real-time Salesforce Sync Service in Go within a few days- Worked directly with the product leadership to establish alignment between the technical roadmap and architecture, ensuring they were in sync with the overarching product roadmap and business goals.- Mentored fellow engineers by conducting thorough code reviews, engaging in pair programming sessions, and producing comprehensive documentation. Shared best practices gleaned from personal experiences, significantly enhancing overall code quality.- Ensured the platform's robustness and performance by utilizing Datadog to capture essential metrics. Spearheaded the integration of metrics and observability KPIs into all new feature development, guaranteeing high-quality outcomes and satisfaction for stakeholders.- Cultivated a positive engineering culture by organizing lunch & learns, workshops, and monthly town hall meetings, fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration.- Provided direct management and mentorship to junior engineers through regular 1x1s and bi-annual performance reviews. Completed management training courses sponsored by the company through Lifelabs.- Accelerated the development of new minimum viable products (MVPs) to explore cutting-edge technologies such as FastAPI, MongoDB Atlas Search, and OCR.🏆 Received the 2021 Equityzen "Zennie" Employee Award for exemplifying the company's core values🏆 Won the 2021 Equityzen Hackathon by utilizing OCR to extract text from documents in the compliance approval flow. Show less
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Staff Software Engineer
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Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
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Senior Backend Engineer
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Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
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Say Technologies
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United States
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
- Built and maintained two independent monolithic Django backends: a shareholder proxy processing application and a consumer-facing Q&A application. - Led the planning and execution of an SSO microservice to unify user bases, handle permissions, and manage service tokens for 3rd party API users. - Mentored other engineers, improving overall code quality by sharing best practices around Python, Django, and Django REST. - Actively researched and implemented MVPs to test product hypotheses and new engineering technologies such as GraphQL to improve the iOS experience, VPN for read-only database access, and Quickbooks API for automated invoicing. - Played an active role in shaping the company culture through participation in the Culture Committee, leading events, swag initiatives, office settings, and values creation. Show less
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Rocketrip
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Full Stack Engineer
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Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
- Developed and maintained ETL pipelines for travel booking data, enabling the generation and approval of budgets to beat. - Collaborated with the data science team to implement algorithms automating support workflows, resulting in significant improvements in processing times. - Contributed to the Culture Committee, organizing an employee award show at an offsite event, managing nominations and voting processes, and hosting the show. - Developed and maintained ETL pipelines for travel booking data, enabling the generation and approval of budgets to beat. - Collaborated with the data science team to implement algorithms automating support workflows, resulting in significant improvements in processing times. - Contributed to the Culture Committee, organizing an employee award show at an offsite event, managing nominations and voting processes, and hosting the show.
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Mighty
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United States
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Legal Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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May 2015 - Jun 2016
- Led the migration of the platform and database from LAMP stack to Django/PostgreSQL, enhancing scalability and performance. - Built an internal case management system and an outward-facing auction platform. - Improved internal workflows by developing custom analytics using Segment Analytics and Periscope Data to track key business metrics. - Led the migration of the platform and database from LAMP stack to Django/PostgreSQL, enhancing scalability and performance. - Built an internal case management system and an outward-facing auction platform. - Improved internal workflows by developing custom analytics using Segment Analytics and Periscope Data to track key business metrics.
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Worlds Fair USA
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Events Services
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Backend Engineer
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Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
www.worldsfairusa.com www.worldsfairusa.com
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BWG Strategy LLC
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United States
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Market Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Development Manager
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Nov 2014 - May 2015
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Education
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2010 - 2014
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
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