Junaid Ahmed

Senior Software Engineer

Berlin, Berlin, Germany10 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 9 years of experience in software engineering.
Expert in building scalable cloud platforms.
Proven track record in optimizing system performance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and healthcare technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

MlopsPlatform EngineeringKubernetesGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Amazon Web Services (aws)Back-end Web DevelopmentReact.jsAws Amplify

Other Skills

PythonGitOpsContinuous Integration (CI)Site Reliability EngineeringGraphQLContinuous Delivery (CD)TerraformDocker ProductsOAuthAmazon ECSAmazon EC2JavaScriptNode.jsOpenID Connect (OIDC)DynamoDB

About

I’m a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance cloud platforms and infrastructure solutions. My career has spanned diverse industries—from fintech and e-commerce to healthcare tech startups—where I’ve led projects that modernise infrastructure and enhance performance. I enjoy solving complex technical challenges with pragmatic, cost-effective solutions, and I’m always looking to improve system performance and operational efficiency.

Experience

Klarna

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

Working in the Klarna Engineering Platform Domain @ Klarna. Primarily working in the MLOps area related ML model serving, model experimentation and data governance systems.

PythonPlatform engineeringMLOps

Shopify

Software Engineer

Apr 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Berlin, Germany

Production engineering (Infrastructure Lifecycle) @ Shopify
As a member of the Infrastructure Lifecycle team, I contributed to tooling related to provisioning, auto-scaling and optimising the core workloads.
Developed a workflow for core canary clusters, and internal developer tooling to provision, upgrade and provide observability for over 300 Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud.
Maintain a Kubernetes controller that scales shopifys core workloads to scale massively for Black Friday flash sales.

GitOpsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)KubernetesContinuous Integration (CI)Site Reliability EngineeringGraphQL+4

Medloop ltd.

Software Engineer

Sep 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

Building a serverless future for healthcare @Medloop.
Migrated legacy user management serviregistration and authentication flow to the AWS based serverless microservices. Improved the reliability, reduced maintenance overhead and server costs by atleast 90%.
Migrated legacy monolithic backend Java proxy services to run serverless on AWS Lambda, improving uptime to 99.9% and reducing running costs by at least 50%.
Built COVID-19 vaccination manager and Chronic Patient Care web application for NHS UK clinics using React.js, AWS Amplify, GraphQL, Node.js and DynamoDB.
Designed and implemented the models , REST APIs, monitoring and authentication for features like multichannel notifications, billing, patient survey processing.

GitOpsOAuthAmazon ECSContinuous Integration (CI)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon EC2+8

Practo

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

May 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

Continuous Integration (CI)Back-End Web DevelopmentContinuous Delivery (CD)

Software Engineer

May 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

Building Practo’s medical insurance framework towards ensuring a cashless hospital experience across multiple geographies(MEA/SEA/IND). Working with the Insurance Module team of Practo's Insta Hospital Management System. Working primarily on building backend services in Java Spring, Postgresql, Java
Struts.

Continuous Integration (CI)Back-End Web DevelopmentContinuous Delivery (CD)

Software Development Intern

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Designed and implemented the infrastructure for verification of doctors published on Practo.com. Built an automated scraping and data pre-processing framework using Selenium, Python, MySQL and R.

Felicity, iiit hyderabad

Head Coordinator

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 · 8 mos · Hyderabad'

Little red zombies studios pvt ltd

Game Development Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Hyderabad

Iiit hyderabad

Research Assistant

Feb 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked with the cognitive neuroscience lab at IIIT Hyderabad, mainly on video game simulations across various projects. Built a game for inducing movement in the stroke-affected limbs of patients based on the mirror-box concept using infrared sensors and bio-feedback control systems. The paper has been presented at ESCoNS NeuroGaming Conference 2015, San Francisco.