Bio
Viral Shah is the Founding Partner of Julia Computing. He has worked at the intersection of policy and technology at the Unique Identification Authority of India, where he led the design of the government’s payments and subsidy platforms using Aadhaar. He has co-authored ‘Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations’ with Nandan Nilekani; is a co-inventor of the Julia programming language, and co-founder of FourthLion Technologies. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.