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RAHI SHAH

Summary

Dynamic software development leader with extensive experience at AMD India Pvt. Ltd., driving automation and validation initiatives. Expert in cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, I championed the rollout of a unified automation platform, enhancing engineering productivity and collaboration. Proven ability to influence architectural decisions while fostering cross-team synergy.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager & MTS Software Development Engineer

AMD India Pvt. Ltd.
Remde
08.2021 - Current
  • Lead a cross-functional team of 6 engineers while driving strategic initiatives to modernize and scale AMD’s post-silicon validation automation across 12+ global validation teams.
  • Drove enterprise-wide adoption of Prism, AMD’s unified automation platform, enabling consistent, reusable, and scalable execution of 10,000+ test runs daily across server validation domains.
  • Served as the technical lead and primary architect for key infrastructure decisions, influencing architectural direction, tooling standardization, and best practices across teams.
  • Architected and delivered core components of Prism, including the Scheduler and Executor, laying the foundation for seamless task orchestration and accelerating time-to-validation.
  • Championed the successful rollout of Prism to 200+ engineers, significantly improving automation reliability, platform coverage, and engineering productivity.
  • Formulated and led the migration to Azure Cloud, delivering a resilient, cost-optimized cloud-native solution that optimized flexibility and trimmed failure recovery time by ~40%.
  • Leveraged Azure Event Hub to handle millions of queued tasks/months with real-time event processing.
  • Provisioned automation services via Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for containerized scalability.
  • Implemented Azure Blob Storage for efficient management of terabytes of logs, artifacts, and configuration data.
  • Operationalized infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines in partnership with DevOps, reducing provisioning time by 60% and ensuring consistent, reliable deployments.
  • Spearheaded the design and delivery of “ATEST”, a next-gen Python-based automation framework.
  • Addressed critical pain points such as environment portability and failure traceability.
  • Set to replace legacy systems across 8 validation teams (~150+ engineers), with an expected 50% reduction in maintenance overhead.
  • Fostered cross-team collaboration by aligning diverse validation teams on automation best practices, accelerating feature rollouts and maximizing resource efficiency.

System Validation Engineer

Intel Corporation
Oregon
03.2018 - 07.2021
  • Outlined scalable Python-based automation for Xeon and Optane post-silicon validation, supporting 120+ engineers across 8 teams.
  • Led automation for 3 generations of Intel Xeon processors and Optane memory, increasing validation throughput by 70%.
  • Re-architected tools for project-independence using config-driven design, multithreading, and modular deployment.
  • Engineered automated triage tool that lowered debug time and auto-filed bug reports for new failures.
  • Represented validation in cross-functional planning, driving 30% efficiency gains and resolving 10 customer escape bugs.
  • Mentored interns and new hires on automation strategy and best practices.
  • Represented the automation team in organization wide strategy discussions, aligning execution workflows across validation, debug, and triage teams.

Software Test Engineer

Intel Corporation
Oregon
05.2017 - 03.2018
  • Programmed test framework (Perl, Python, Selenium, C/C++) that brought down test time by 30% and enhanced repeatability.
  • Automated validation of Intel’s AI-enabled wireless smart router across diverse environments and releases.
  • Wrote and maintained API unit tests and Selenium-based functional test cases.

Software Engineer Intern

Intel Corporation
Oregon
01.2016 - 12.2016
  • Wrote C++ logic for seamless voice call handoff between Wi-Fi and Cellular based on signal strength (RSSI).
  • Automated tests using Jenkins, Google Test, and Perl; integrated with CI pipelines for regression coverage.
  • Authored and executed functional and end-to-end test cases.

Software Developer

Indian Space Research Organization
09.2012 - 11.2014
  • Deployed an interactive Java-based image processing tool with zoom, crop, and RGB scan features.
  • Boosted image quality by 50% and minimized processing time by half.
  • Designed JSP/Servlet-based web app for daily report viewing and downloads.
  • Delivered 4 full-stack web apps with focus on cross-browser compatibility and UX.

Education

Master of Science (M.S.) - Computer Science

IIT
Chicago, USA
05.2017

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Computer Engineering

GTU
INDIA
05.2012

Skills

  • Automation and validation
  • Distributed systems
  • Parallel programming
  • Virtualization technologies
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • API architecture
  • Test-driven development
  • Data mining and visualization
  • Programming languages and frameworks
  • Cloud services and tools
  • DevOps practices and tooling
  • Operating systems expertise
  • Database management and storage solutions
  • Security protocols and access control

Projects

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Advanced Web Applications – Online Shopping Portal, Developed a full-stack e-commerce web application using React (frontend), Spring Boot (backend), and PostgreSQL (database)., Gujarat Technological University, India, Web Applications – Online Auction Website, Built a JSP-Servlet-based auction system using MySQL, demonstrating MVC architecture and real-time bidding logic.

Timeline

Manager & MTS Software Development Engineer

AMD India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2021 - Current

System Validation Engineer

Intel Corporation
03.2018 - 07.2021

Software Test Engineer

Intel Corporation
05.2017 - 03.2018

Software Engineer Intern

Intel Corporation
01.2016 - 12.2016

Software Developer

Indian Space Research Organization
09.2012 - 11.2014

Master of Science (M.S.) - Computer Science

IIT

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Computer Engineering

GTU

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