Shahnaz Mohammed — Software Engineer

As a seasoned backend engineer with over 12 years of crafting robust and scalable software solutions, I've journeyed from a passionate coder to a strategic leader, shaping the digital backbone of diverse industries. My expertise lies in dissecting complex problems and engineering elegant, high-performance systems, all while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within my teams. Early in my career, I was captivated by the intricacies of data structures and algorithms, recognizing them as the fundamental building blocks of any resilient software. This passion drove me to master languages like C#, Python, and Go, and to explore the nuances of SQL and NoSQL databases. A truly pivotal moment arrived when our team was developing a critical new product requiring a highly reliable and scalable asynchronous messaging system. The choice narrowed down to Azure Service Bus and Amazon SQS. This wasn't just a technical decision; it had significant implications for our existing infrastructure, team skill set, future scalability, and cost. I led the deep-dive analysis, rigorously evaluating factors like message ordering guarantees, dead-letter queue handling, integration with our existing cloud platform (Azure/AWS), throughput capabilities, and long-term pricing models. The challenge lay in balancing immediate project needs with the strategic direction of our technology stack. After extensive prototyping and presenting a comprehensive trade-off analysis to stakeholders, we confidently selected the optimal solution. This experience underscored the importance of thorough evaluation, clear communication of complex technical trade-offs, and making decisions that align with both technical excellence and business objectives. It reinforced my skills in system design, vendor evaluation, and strategic technology selection. My achievements include mentoring junior engineers who have grown into tech leads, successfully launching critical backend services that became foundational to product success, and consistently delivering projects that exceed expectations in terms of quality and timeliness. I bring a pragmatic approach to software architecture, always seeking the optimal balance between innovation and reliability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in Cloud Computing and Software Infrastructure.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 13 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Software Infrastructure
.net Core

Career Highlights

Over 12 years of backend engineering experience.
Expert in optimizing complex software systems.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.

Work Experience

Deliveroo

Staff Software Engineer (5 mos)

Google

Software Engineer (3 yrs)

Microsoft

Software Engineer (6 yrs 6 mos)

Capgemini

Associate Consultant (5 mos)

Syntel

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Education

Applied AI/ML at Deep Atlas

B.Tech at Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering for Women, Madhurawada

Shahnaz Mohammed

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of backend engineering experience.
Expert in optimizing complex software systems.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in Cloud Computing and Software Infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Infrastructure.net Core

Other Skills

Engineering ManagementModel Training & Fine-TuningTransfer LearningConvolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)Model EvaluationGrad-CAMSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Design.NETASP.NETJavaScriptWeb ServicesC#XMLSQL

About

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Deliveroo

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Google

Software Engineer

Dec 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Passionate about building highly scalable and efficient software solutions, I leverage my expertise at Google to tackle complex engineering challenges that drive significant impact. My contributions focus on enhancing core infrastructure and accelerating product innovation:
Optimizing Indexing Infrastructure Efficiency & Cost: I engineer and implement solutions that significantly boost the efficiency of Google's critical indexing infrastructure. My work directly addresses resource utilization, leading to substantial cost savings in operations. This ensures our foundational systems operate at peak performance with maximal cost-effectiveness.
Accelerating New Product Introductions on Google Cloud: I played a key role in streamlining and speeding up the New Product Introduction (NPI) lifecycle for services launching on Google Cloud. This involves developing robust engineering frameworks to enhancing the delivery from concept to production and to reduce time-to-market and buggy turn up and handoff processes. Empowering Google Cloud to deliver cutting-edge solutions to customers more rapidly.

Engineering ManagementSoftware Infrastructure

Microsoft

Software Engineer

Jun 2016 – Dec 2022 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Working as full stack dev with .NET CORE, Aks.
Have experience in Azure PAAS,
Worked as a Lead on multiple Performance Testing projects
Responsible for creating the key Virtual user scripts using the Visual Studio Web Performance Test for web (HTTP/HTML), SMPP Protocols
Responsible for Monitoring the Application's performance under Load using the key Web Server Monitors, Application Gateway monitors, Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
Drafted test cases based on test plans. Designed, scheduled and executed test cases within the predefined time frame
Developed Visual Studio Web performance test scripts. Created Single User, Base Line and Load test scenarios. Random pacing between iterations was introduced to get the desired transactions per hour.
Analysed results using Visual Studio Load Test Reporting tool and application insights.
Responsible for setting up monitors to monitor network activities and bottlenecks.
Developed Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Summary Reports and Test Execution Metrics.
Monitored different graphs like transaction response time and analysed server performance status, hits per second, throughput, windows resources and database server resources etc.
Found performance degradation issues like “Out of Memory” problems and improved Thread pool utilization, Memory Leaks, etc.
Analysed Load pattern and created test scenarios to emulate the real-life stress conditions.
Conducted meetings with developers, application team, business team to analyse the defects evaluate the test executions
Designed and implemented performance test frameworks for improving test efficiency.
Experience in working with different performance testing tools like K6, JMeter.

.NET Core

Capgemini

Associate Consultant

Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 5 mos · Pune Area, India

Good experience in C# ASP.NET and ADO.NET
Developed Web Application by MVC patterns
Used ADO.NET for SQL database interaction using Data Reader Dataset and Data view
Extensively used LINQ to XML LINQ to Objects
Used extensively new C 4.0/3.0/2.0 features such as Generics Iterators Anonymous methods Partial classes Anonymous Types Lambda Expressions and Extension methods
Worked on Design Patterns

Syntel

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2012 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Pune Area, India

Good experience in C# ASP.NET and ADO.NET
Developed Web Application by MVC patterns
Used ADO.NET for SQL database interaction using Data Reader Dataset and Data view
Extensively used LINQ to XML LINQ to Objects
Used extensively new C 4.0/3.0/2.0 features such as Generics Iterators Anonymous methods Partial classes Anonymous Types Lambda Expressions and extension methods
Involved in requirement gathering functional and technical specification
Used N-tier architecture for Presentation Layer Business and Data Access Layers using C#
Coding and debugging using ASP.NET and C#
Written Database Routines Stored Procedures and fixing up standard specifications