Shakir Riaz

Software Engineer

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland3 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

Achieved 86% improvement in production pipeline efficiency.
Optimized CI/CD performance, saving 200+ engineering hours monthly.
Expertise in AWS services and software engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and SaaS expert with strong software engineering capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)Software Engineering

Other Skills

API TestingAWS DynamoDBAWS IAMAWS TranscribeAlgorithmsAmazon CloudWatchAmazon EC2Amazon S3CC++CI/CDCSSCassandraContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Critical Production Incident Management

About

A Coder during Day, and a Musician at Night. -Highly skilled in programming and mathematics. - Working as a Software Engineer at Amazon Dublin in AWS DynamoDB’s ATM Team. - Worked as a Software Engineer at Visa. - Worked as SDE 1 at PocketFM. -Worked as a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon, United Kingdom for 6 months where I excelled the art of writing production level code and learned about AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS Cloudwatch, AWS IAM, AWS Transcribe and did testing in Ruby and Java. - 4 Star Coder at Codechef -Possess in depth knowledge of C,C++,Python. -Strong grasp over data structures and algorithms. - Good problem solving abilities. - Knows HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL. - Possess in depth knowledge of Machine Learning Algorithms and Deep Learning too. - Got 96.82 percentile in JEE MAINS 2019, 99 percentile in mathematics alone. And When I am not working, I like to spend my time playing guitar and singing.

Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

Software Engineer

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · On-site

Part of AWS DynamoDb’s Account Table and Management (ATM) team.
Led Pipeline Freshness Initiative maintaining ≤ 28 days deployment time across all pro-
duction pipelines; reduced Auto Admin (Primary Production Pipeline) pipeline’s oldest merge
days from 150 to 20 days (86% improvement) and Canary pipeline from 100 to 15 days (85%
improvement).
Optimized CI/CD performance by 56%, reducing Auto Admin (Primary Package) build time
from 45 to 20 minutes by resolving multi-threaded race conditions and thread leaks in unit
tests, saving 200+ engineering hours monthly as we have 20+ builds per day.
Prevented Critical Production Incidents by identifying and mitigating fleet-wide shutdown
risk during Metadata DB partition outages and also resolved the encryption key notification gap
aﬀecting 10M+ subscribers, ensuring compliance and customer trust.

AWS DynamoDBCI/CDMultithreadingProduction PipelinesCritical Production Incident ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)+1

Visa

Software Engineer

May 2024 – Mar 2025 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

VCS (Visa Campaign Solutions) Team.

Pocket fm

Software Development Engineer I

Mar 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · India · Hybrid

PocketFM is one of the largest Audiobook platform all over the world.
Working in the Moonshot team which deals with how the overall experience (latency and memory)
of the app can be improved and what new features can be implemented. Worked on the search part of the app and enhanced the accuracy of the Auto Suggestions and Search APIs to a considerable extent.
Optimized the average latency of Auto Suggestions and Search APIs from 1000ms to 80ms.

Latency OptimizationSearch API EnhancementSoftware Engineering

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2022 – Feb 2023 · 6 mos · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · On-site

Worked as a Software Development Engineer Intern in the Ring Team.
Worked on a project which inserts subtitles in Ring Shared Videos.
Advised a solution which reduces the time taken to generate subtitles upto 90%.
Also worked on the testing of an internal service called BumbleBee which deals with transcoding Ring Videos and added numerous Integration Tests and also a Healthcheck to check whether the service has crashed or not.

Subtitles GenerationIntegration TestingSoftware Engineering