Ridhwaan Shakeel

Software Engineer

Kirkland, Washington, United States9 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Contributed to GitHub Copilot features for enterprise organizations.
Led engineering teams mentoring over 10 junior members.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines enhancing production quality.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong automation and CI/CD expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

AutomationCi/cd.net

Other Skills

SeleniumPythonPuppetAWSGolangRuby on RailsC#MySQLPowershellT-SQLMicrosoft DynamicsAWS LambdaC++JavaDatabases

About

Focused on building best-in-class user experiences. Have made large contributions to support the engineering systems of companies as large as GitHub. I developed nascent GitHub Copilot features for Enterprise plan organizations, which included promoting Copilot upsell and championing service architecture I worked in teams that shaped the growth of the Copilot product to upwards of 20 million users. Led over 3 engineering teams with an average size of 6 members across three companies and mentored over 10 junior members. Specialties: Storage Engines, Parallel Programming, Data-oriented Design, high-scale Middleware

Experience

9 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Software Engineer

Sep 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

New relic, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · Remote

Flipp

2 roles

Software Engineer II, III

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Software Engineer in Test

Sep 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

Strategized and drove production quality by developing a front-end automation to run regression against multiple Saucelabs browsers
Introduced CI/CD pipelines to scale across Marketing Automation systems with a monthly active userbase of ~1.2 million. Led to fast feedback loops and early risk detection
Automated repetitive front-end and back-end tasks using Selenium, Python, Puppet. As a result, achieved higher agility and team output
Implemented early warning system for production servers utilizing healthchecks, Cloudwatch alarms, Datadog
Technologies used: Golang, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Kafka

SeleniumPythonPuppetAWSCI/CDGolang+2

Brookfield residential

2 roles

Software Engineer Intern (Term II)

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos

Pioneered a .NET graphics application that drills down sitemaps to show building property details
Worked closely with sysadmin to maintain domain model and optimize production performance
Worked on a tool to import customer data into an inventory management system from Microsoft Dynamics
Worked closely with IT to occasionally perform server hardware/software maintenance
Demonstrated customer obsession by continuously gathering requirements, personalizing the UI/UX

.NETC#MySQLPowershellT-SQL

Software Engineer Intern (Term I)

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos

Solved an enterprise business problem by developing a new inventory management application in C#/ MySQL to allow finance and accounting users to perform queries, ﬁltered searches and run business Crystal reports
Wrote SQL scripts for database creation, views, and stored procedures
Worked closely with IT to occasionally perform database backups and network maintenance
Technologies used: .NET Framework 4, Powershell, MySQL, T-SQL, ADO.NET, LINQ

.NETC#Microsoft Dynamics