Trusit Shah
Bio
I am a keen tech-enthusiastic, who loves to build solutions for software and hardware industries. I have designed and developed software architecture for a variety of software and hardware technologies including Augmented Reality, Internet of Things and Indoor Positioning. I am a skilled full stack software developer with fluency in more than 10 programming languages. I also have a background in hardware engineering and have expertise in Embedded Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks.
Currently, I am a software developer at Amazon in AWS IoT team. prior to that, I did Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. My current areas of research are security and privacy issues in IoT and User Customizable IoT architecture.
I completed my Master's degree in Embedded Systems from BITS Goa, India. My area of research for my master's thesis was cross-layer wireless sensor network protocol. I was part of a research group at Wireless Sensor Lab in Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Goa, where I led a team of 5 undergraduate students in designing a wireless network for gas pipelines. My contribution helped the project to raise a fund of 9 million Indian Rupees (INR). I also provided solutions to local Embedded System based industries as a consultant while pursuing my undergraduate and master's degree.
Education
2015-2019
PhD in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
2012-2014
MS in Embedded Systems
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India
2008-2012
BS in Telecommunication Engineering
Birla Viswakarma Mahavidhyalaya, India
Experience
2020-Present
Software Developer
Amazon Web Services, IoT Team
2017-2019
CTO and Co-founder
Caplar
2015-2019
Teaching Assistant
The University of Texas at Dallas