Imran Shaikh, Senior Software Engineer

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PROFILE SUMMARY

Highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience.
Proven expertise in designing, delivering, and supporting large-scale distributed systems with high availability and throughput that allows processing of millions of transactions per day.
Experienced in working with global systems that cater to users of different countries with various laws, rules, and regulations, especially Europe, USA, and China
Competent in Java, SpringBoot, C#, .NET, Kaka, Rest API, React/Svelte, Linux, K8S, CI&CD, Docker, DevOps, AI, System Design, Leadership, and Collaboration.
Created Self-hosted public web apps with 150,000+ users worldwide. (this website)

L5 Software Engineer, British Petroleum (BP), May 2023 – Present

Contributing to transaction & invoicing systems to cater to customers in the European Union (EU) Countries and the UK.
Designed a distributed invoicing system that processes 284K+ daily transactions, improving invoice turnaround time by 89% by through event-driven design using Kafka and .Net.
Developed a country-specific monotonic sequencing system for invoices, ensuring compliance with EU finance & tax regulations.
Led cross-team and multi-domain integration with BP’s SAP-based financial systems, ensuring accurate accounting & reporting for global operations.
Tech: C#, .NET, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Salesforce, SAP.

SDE 2, Amazon, Jul 2022 – Mar 2023

Led a team of 4+ engineers to enhance Amazon’s Global Pricing platform, impacting millions of listings worldwide.
Built and operated high-throughput services handling peak traffic of 345K+ Transactions Per Second (TPS) in the North America region.
Designed cost-optimization strategies, aiming to reduce the current team’s AWS spend by 1.47% for pricing services.
Delivered performance tuning for a Java-based UI module, improving customer experience metrics by 23% using A/B Testing in the US market.
Enhanced Featured Buying Option(FBO) system, influencing ~8% of Amazon product listings.
Tech: Java (Core), Modified Spring Framework, AWS, Docker, DynamoDB, Lambda, Amazon internal tech.

Senior Software Engineer, HERE Technologies, Jun 2020 – Jul 2022

Designed Apache stream and Flink-like system that processes over 450GB of hourly data for high-frequency B2B clients, reducing system hot-spots in the Europe market, ensuring smooth operations.
Experienced in working within the “The Great Firewall” of China and fixed a key issue that caused network partition of said service between China and the Rest of the World.
Built tools to auto-detect and correct billing inconsistencies, resolving issues in 38% of billing records across services.
Led a 6+ member cross-platform team to transform billing from 8-hour delays to near-real-time accuracy.
Delivered projects improving billing transparency and retention for enterprise clients.
Tech: Java, Spring Boot, Apache Flink, Kafka, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Postgres.

Full Stack Java Developer, Fluid AI, Jul 2018 – May 2020

Led 9+ member teams on an early AI-based system that provided services to one of the largest banks in Europe and Jamaica.
Designed and developed microservices-based chatbot backend for real-time processing on partner services.
Tech: Java, Spring Boot, React, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Linux.

Degree	University	Year
Bachelor of Engineering in IT	Mumbai University	2018
Diploma in IT	Government Polytechnic Mumbai	2015

Created and maintained CodersTea.in, a developer knowledge hub with 150K+ users.
Authored 11+ technical articles on DZone with 180K+ reads.
Open-sourced a real-time image streaming tool for developer collaboration.
Mentored engineers globally in system design and backend development.

Languages: Java, C#, JavaScript, Kotlin, TypeScript, Python, Go.
Frameworks: Spring Boot, .NET, React, Node.js, GraphQL, Apache Flink.
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
Messaging & Streaming: Kafka, AWS SQS, Event-Driven Architecture.
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Git.
Specialties: API Design, Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Performance Optimization, Scalability, High-Availability Architecture.
Tools: IntelliJ, Rider, VSCode, NeoVim, Maven, GitHub Copilot, GitLab, GitHub, and Cursor.