Punit Shah

Member of Technical Staff

Coda is an all-in-one collaborative workspace for teams. I had two chapters there: building our developer ecosystem (see below) and building Coda Brain. These products became Coda's top drivers of ARR and a core thesis behind Coda's exit to Grammarly in December 2025. Coda Brain is your team’s favorite know-it-all. It's an enterprise search product that uses LLMs with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to find structured and unstructured data across your company's tools. Help launch Coda Brain, leading evals.

Packs are our extensions that bring new powers to your doc. Led a team of 2 PMs and 40+ people across tech/go-to-market to build Coda’s “Packs” developer platform, community, and plugin ecosystem from scratch. Our goal: enable makers to build a business creating extensions, expanding what’s possible in Coda to grow TAM and user value/retention. Set overall vision and strategy, owned end-to-end user experience and marketing message, drove execution, and updated our Board of Directors on progress. Now, running the team growing the platform for Pack makers and users. Less than a year post-launch: * Outperformed established competitors with over 400 published plugins, enabling whole new use cases in Coda for end-users * Became a top driver for ARR, driving net-new signups and product engagement * Multiple partners have built their full businesses on Coda Personally, I'm excited seeing folks who previously couldn't code so quickly make a living income from the platform. Seeing how everyone from teachers to product mangers to artists have found a Pack for themself means we're expanding Coda's magic to multiples more users and teams.

Building consumer-facing features to make both riders and communities comfortable and safe with scooters. Helped build the tools that directly unlocked the vast majority of Lime's permits across five continents and grew global fleet by XXXX%, turning Lime into the world's largest shared-scooter provider. Launches include creating and growing our geofencing platform, ML-based sidewalk riding detection, age verification tools, safety education, safety data tools, and more. Co-inventor on patent applications tied to these projects. But beyond individual projects, I'm excited that we've created a "first draft" for how the micromobility industry will operate in cities and help replace cars, working alongside riders and governments.

Conceived, prototyped, engineered, and then marketed a dating application for communities that enabled individuals with mutual interest to connect while a Stanford graduate student. Was used by vast majority of student body I piloted with and resulted in multiple relationships. Decided not to pursue the idea further after graduation. Final version built using JavaScript atop Firebase.

Led product development at early stage tech startup focusing on physical addressing and B2B logistics in emerging markets. Helped take company from an idea to multiple paying customers. Ran 2-4 week hypothesis sprint and worked across various JS technologies (Node, Angular) and Elastic for product and data engineering. At various points ran sales, people operations.

Worked with high tech and education clients across strategy, operations, and sales/marketing. Learned to talk in threes.

Started web consulting firm advising clients in online strategy, messaging, and social media for businesses, nonprofits, and political campaigns. Work with clients to design, develop, and deploy websites/web applications. "UC Taxi" tool I built covered by the NY Times (see link below).

Launched video search UI features affecting hundreds of billions of queries annually. Managed conception, design, engineering, and experimentation process.

Taught in "CS50: Introduction to Computer Science." Led section and advised 14 students, held office hours, graded assignments.

Admitted senior year of college and deferred entry for four years. Coursework included focus on mechatronics/mechanical engineering, AI/ML in computer science. Founded #GSLove, the GSB's widely-used dating app.

Graduated with Highest Honors in Social Studies (interdisciplinary social sciences). Focused on technology-enabled education and economic development. Thesis titled "Going Online: How Do Technology-Based Reading Programs Affect Student Learning & Motivation? An exploratory analysis"