Hi! I'm Shaan Khan.
Thank you for visiting my site!
You are probably here for Shadow's page, but in the off chance you're hear to learn about me, welcome!
I'm a Computer Science graduate from Stony Brook University and am currently working at Société Générale as a software developer in application support. I love programming and my current favorite languages are Python, C, and Javascript. Some of my favorite thing's to learn about include operating systems and history.
I am particularly proud of my heritage. My mom was born in the Czech Republic and from her I inherited my ability to speak Czech and the ability to stay and my Babička's house to eat some amazing food. My father's parents are Pakistani and have given me a high spice tolerance and deep appreciation of South Asian food.
For the last 2 years I have been working at Société Générale, first as an intern, and then as a full time Software Developer. I sit next to, and closely work with, the EMM (Electronic Market Making) traders, the trading platform developers, and key members of various infrastructure teams. I have many responsibilities, including software develpment (of many different project), performance reporting/monitoring, and managing a lab environment.
When I am not dealing with 1s and 0s, I enjoy playing with my dog Shadow and working on various car projects. I drive both a 2009 Crown Victoria p71 and a 1999 Tacoma 5 speed manual. Recently, I have been reading a lot more and have been enjoying some amazing books.
My Achievements
I don't enjoy boasting about myself but there are a few achievements I am particularly proud of.
Volunteering
I have been volunteering a long time. I have had the honor to receive the President's Volunteer Service Award twice (2017 & 2018). Virtually all of the volunteering I did was at my local public library and the most prominent one I participated in was homework help which was a weekly event in which I would help student's grades K-6th with homework. In 2019, I was awarded the South Huntington Public Library Friends of the Library Scholarship in recognition of my continual and frequent community service. You can find a copy of the newsletter here.
Education
I had the pleasure to be the class of 2019 Walt Whitman High School salutatorian out of a class of about 445 students. Furthermore, I graduated summa cum laude from Stony Brook after making the Dean's list every semester.
Old Website Iterations
This website has gone through a few different iterations. The first being a google site, the next being a site with react, and finally with the current iterations being built with Mkdocs. Why do I change it so often? I just like to try new things :)
Contact me!
The contact me form is a work in progress as making it work is a bit hacky :)