Syed Saud Hasan

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led migration of microservices to GCP, reducing costs by 40%.
  • Automated city vehicle launches, cutting time from 4 days to 30 minutes.
  • Elevated service uptime to 99.5% through strategic optimizations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Developer specializing in SaaS with expertise in cloud migration and microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipKotlinGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Agile Project ManagementKubernetesMicroserviceSoftware InfrastructureSoftware DesignSoftware Development Life Cycle (sdlc)

Other Skills

AWS CloudWatchAmazon Web Services (AWS)AppSmithAutoscalingBlockchainCC++Customer ServiceDatadogEngineeringJavaJenkinsJiraLinuxManaging Technical Personnel

About

Backend developer | Kotlin | RoR | GCP | Kubernetes | PSQL

Experience

Porter

4 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Porter Partner Prime Opt-in Feature
  • Leading a team of 3 to develop, test, and roll out the Porter Partner Prime program, de- signed to offer performance-based benefits to partners.
  • Collaborating with product, business, and service stakeholders using an Agile framework to ensure timely delivery and efficient execution.
  • Team Management
  • Successfully managing a team of 7 direct reports, overseeing their performance, career growth, and development.
  • Driving team alignment, fostering collaboration, and ensuring high levels of engagement and productivity.
Managing Technical PersonnelTechnology LeadershipJavaRuby on RailsJiraTerraform+1

SDE 3

Nov 2022Oct 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Migrated Microservices Cloud from AWS to GCP & Optimised Cloud Cost
  • Led a team of 4 developers to migrate 16 microservices from AWS to GCP, focusing on cost reduction, environment parity, and stack modernisation.
  • Transitioned to Terraform for resource provisioning and Helm for Kubernetes deployments, ensuring scalable and efficient infrastructure management.
  • Migrated AWS services to GCP counterparts, achieving 40% cloud cost reduction in a 6- month program.
  • Enhanced developer experience and system reliability through parity across different environments and modernised infrastructure.
  • Led the design and implementation of the CVLA Module:
  • Transformed manual city vehicle launches, previously requiring 3-4 man days and multiple engineers, into an automated process using an AppSmith Dashboard
  • Enabled engineering team autonomy through the CVLA dashboard
  • Enabled business teams to launch in new regions within 30 minutes, down from 4 days
  • Recognized with the Best Developer of the Quarter award
  • Elevating Service Uptime to 99.5% from 98.5% for 5 Backend Services:
  • Addressed challenges in maintaining high service uptime with increasing scale
  • Identified and resolved root causes through prioritized error attribution
  • Implemented optimizations in resource provisioning, autoscaling, throughput, and query performance to enhance system resilience and stability
  • MMK (Microservice Migration to Kotlin):
  • Spearheaded migration of critical APIs to Kotlin stack, prioritizing latency reduction and uptime enhancement
  • Acted as tech lead, working on proof-of-concepts like traffic split and response shadow, and guiding junior team members
  • MasterBox & Dynamic Staging Setup:
  • Established a pre-production environment for all services, ensuring readiness for testing and development
  • Engineered dynamic provisioning of boxes for staging and QA testing to address scalability challenges
  • Implemented automated cleaning processes for maintenance and efficiency
Project PlanningTeam LeadershipRuby on RailsProcess AutomationCustomer ServiceKotlin+2

SDE 2

Promoted

Jan 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Tech POC for New City Vehicle Launches:
  • Oversaw 20+ city X vehicle launches annually, ensuring technical integrity
  • Semi-automated scripts reduced turnaround time, expediting processes
  • Created comprehensive documentation and advocated for full automation
  • Designed and Migrated Negative Reinforcement Platform from Ruby to Kotlin Stack:
  • Executed a seamless two-phase migration, transferring code to a new Kotlin microservice in Phase 1 while maintaining the existing database, and migrating tables to a new optimized schema in Phase 2
  • Achieved a significant reduction in average P99 latency from ~400ms to <50ms post-migration, enhancing system performance
  • Implemented observability through AWS CloudWatch & Datadog Dashboards to monitor the migration process effectively
  • Thoroughly documented the migration process to ensure transparency and facilitate future reference
  • Oversight of 5+ core business products from a Technical Standpoint:
  • Acted as primary liaison for 5+ product owners, providing technical guidance and support
  • Collaborated with the team to reduce total support tickets from over 900 per week to around 44 per week across all products within our scope within 6 months
OwnerShipMicroserviceKotlinPostgreSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Jenkins

Software Engineer

May 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Oversight of Insti Business from tech perspective & Owner App Dev:
  • Developed and maintained user and order flows for Institutional Business.
  • Collaborated on backend system implementation for the Owner App using Ruby on Rails (RoR) and PostgreSQL (PSQL)
Software InfrastructureSoftware DesignEngineeringSoftware Industry

Shipsy

Software Engineer

Jun 2018Apr 2019 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Here's the revised version with spaces added appropriately:
  • Daily Report Mailer
  • Developed, tested, and released a daily report mailer of Rider to respective Hub managers.
  • Added data dump functionality for clients, which was used to generate dump reports based upon multiple filters (Psql + Js)
Software InfrastructureEngineeringSoftware DesignSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Testing

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Summer Research Intern

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bombay

  • Intern project was focused on Blockchain technology. During the intern I built a forensic tool for Bitcoin Blockchian public ledger. This tool uses publically available ledger information and some other auxiliary information to gives a intelligent view to user. The tool gathers auxiliary information using different web crawlers and api's. This tool can be used by government agencies to track down the defaulters of Bitcoin transaction.

Indian institute of information technology guwahati

Placement Coordinator

Jan 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Guwahati, Assam, India

  • Placement Coordinator for 2014 batch.

Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati

Bachelor of technology — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2018

Sir Padampat Singhania School

class 11-12 — Senior Secondary Education

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Kendriya Vidyalaya

class 1-10 — Marticulation

Jan 2000Jan 2010

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