Viral B. Shah

Viral B Shah is an Indian computer scientist, best known for being a co-creator of the Julia programming language. he is the CEO of Julia Computing, which he co-founded with Alan Edelman, Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Keno Fischer and Deepak Vinchhi.
Education.
Viral received his B.Engg in Computer Engineering from the Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan's College of Engineering. He went on to study Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his Ph.D. in the field of Combinatorial Scientific Computing.
Policy contributions.
He was actively involved in the Aadhaar project, which provided a 12-digit unique-identity number to Indian residents based on their biometric and demographic data. Based on his experiences implementing Aadhaar and other complex technology projects in the Government of India, he co-authored the book "Rebooting India" with Nandan Nilekani.