Faizal Shaikh

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 9 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Built APIs handling over 1 million requests per hour.
  • Reduced AWS costs by 60% through automation.
  • Led a team to improve product security and availability.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS backend engineer with expertise in cloud technologies and scalable architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsApi DevelopmentAi IntegrationBackend DevelopmentAccess ControlSecurity ImprovementSurvey ManagementRpa Development

Other Skills

Application SecurityArtificial Intelligence (AI)Automation ScriptsC#CICDCloud ArchitectureData PipelineData StructuresDatabase DesignDevOpsDisaster RecoveryFrontend OptimizationGPT-4Google BigQueryHTML

About

Experienced Senior Software Engineer with a robust backend and full‑stack development background, specializing in JavaScript, TypeScript, Java Spring Boot, Angular, React Python, and modern cloud technologies. Recognized for building high‑quality APIs and database designs that scale to 1,000,000+ requests per hour at ElevateHQ and Athena Health. Adept using AWS, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes for cloud deployments and container orchestration.Holds a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering

Experience

Zluri

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Elevatehq

2 roles

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2024Sep 2024 · 5 mos

  • Developed and maintained highly scalable backend services and APIs. Responsible for the architecture of a highly available calculation engine and cloud architecture. Responsible for building end‑to‑end features right from requirement consolidation to database design to API development, deployment, and testing, documentation, bug fixes, and support.
  • Contributed to reducing AWS cost by 60% by analyzing traffic patterns and building automation scripts.
  • Revamped the deployment architecture to a scalable setup using AWS lambda and auto‑scaling reducing monthly bugs by 15%
  • Built and automated a data pipeline from AWS RDS to Google Bigquery for data analysis and dashboarding hence saving 3 hours per week of solution teams time required for making client‑specific dashboards.
  • Integrated AI tools (GPT‑4 API) to build debugging tool for commissions and copilot features.
AWSAPI DevelopmentDatabase DesignCloud ArchitectureAutomation ScriptsData Pipeline+1

SDE-2

Aug 2022Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Was part of the backend team building core features like payouts and payroll management. Quota management. Sales Rep Dashboards, Sales Manager Dashboards, Analytics using Cubejs. Dynamic Approvals on various actions etc. Bringing the product up to speed and beyond the competitors
  • Handled end-to-end design and implementation of APIs with constant coordination with Product and Frontend teams. Also act as a mentor to junior developers.
API DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentMentorship

Athenahealth

Full-stack Developer

Nov 2021Aug 2022 · 9 mos · India

  • Worked on building Prior authorization modules for US Providers and Payers. Leading a team of 5.
  • Built Access Control features which improved the Security rating of the product. Added DR (Disaster Recovery) to the deployment architecture to handle AWS outages bringing the availability of applications to 99.99%.
  • Added SonarQube to the CICD pipelines to ensure good coding practices and improve maintainability
Access ControlSecurity ImprovementDisaster RecoveryCICD

Infosys

Specialist Programmer

Jun 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built a Platform for managing surveys at enterprise and personal levels with unique
  • types of questions and interesting features like templates, themes, embeddable polls, quizzes, MFA, etc, and powerful analytics.
  • Worked on optimization of Indian Income tax portal working on reducing frontend load time and build bundle sizes. Migrated the entire application from Angular 7 to Angular 11.
  • Worked as RPA developer for Reckitt Benkizer client, building various chatbots and automation bots to bring down the request SLAs from 1 day to 30 minutes for various Service requests.
Survey ManagementFrontend OptimizationRPA Development

Education

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSUB), Vadodara

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — computer science and engineering

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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