Shaun Panjabi

Sr. Director of Engineering @ Airvet · Irvine, CA · shaunpanjabi@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/shaunpanjabi

Summary

Software engineer turned engineering leader, with a decade of experience across mobile, backend, and web — from shipping apps to millions of users to building backend systems and the teams behind them.

Experience

Airvet · Nov 2018 – Present

• Sr. Director of Engineering · Feb 2026 – Present
• Director of Engineering · Feb 2025 – Feb 2026
• Principal Software Engineer · Feb 2023 – Feb 2025
• Lead Backend Engineer · Jun 2020 – Feb 2023
  Helped build the Python API from the ground up and led its migration to Go. Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Postgres, gRPC.
• Android Developer, Lead · Nov 2018 – Jun 2020
  One of the first 10 employees. Built the MVP — two Android apps for a two-sided marketplace — in six months, wearing product, design, and backend hats along the way, and helped the company reach its Series A.

Headspace — Software Engineer, Android · Jul 2016 – Nov 2018

• Planned and built the next-gen Android version of the meditation app (10M+ downloads), shipping features with a focus on testable architecture and fast development cycles.

Medtronic — Software Engineer in Test · Oct 2014 – Jul 2016

• Technical lead of an automated test framework (BLE, RPC, RS232, RF) for black-box testing of iOS apps and wearable medical devices, exposing a high-level Python API for readable test scripts.

Marvin Test Solutions — Student Engineer · Aug 2013 – Apr 2014

• Developed software and designed a military-grade cable to capture performance requirements for a defense bomb rack; diagnosed hardware failures and sourced components.

Skills

Go · Python · PostgreSQL · gRPC · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Android (Kotlin/Java) · system architecture · engineering leadership

Education

University of California, Irvine — B.S. Electrical & Electronics Engineering · 2011 – 2014