About Aayush Shah
Aayush Shah co-founded Blacksmith in 2024 with Aditya Jayaprakash and Aditya Maru.
He was an early engineer at Cockroach Labs, where he worked on the core database team and on CockroachDB's data distribution and disaster recovery systems.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Aayush Shah in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Blacksmith Software Inc. Current
Co-founder and director
2024 – Present · New York, NY
Blacksmith runs engineering teams' GitHub Actions jobs on its own bare-metal servers, with CI monitoring and a coding agent that fixes failed builds.
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Cockroach Labs
Engineer
Education
- University of Waterloo
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Aayush Shah works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Blacksmith Software Inc. · Form D, Aug 19, 2026
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Erik Nordlander
Director
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Aditya Jayaprakash
Co-founder & CEO, director
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Aditya Maru
Co-founder and director
Aayush Shah in the News
Sources
- SECBlacksmith Software Inc. Form D, filed Aug 19, 2026
- Officialblacksmith.sh, SOC 2 Type 2 post (byline: Aayush Shah, Co-founder)
- OfficialBlacksmith Series C press release, PR Newswire (2026-10-21)
- Officialblacksmith.sh, seed announcement (Cockroach Labs core database team)
- Officialblacksmith.sh, about page