Headline

Striving to be better everyday

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

openai

Work experience

Backend Engineer - Intern at Pratilipi, Feb 2026 - Apr 2026 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developed and maintained backend services for the Pratilipi FM application using Golang and Python, building RESTful APIs and managing production deployments on AWS. Diagnosed and resolved goroutine leaks causing cascading container failures in production, reducing 5xx errors by ˜95% (from thousands daily to near-zero) and eliminating recurring container crashes. Optimized a daily pass unlocking batch job, improving execution time by 3x (40 min to 13 min) through query optimization and algorithmic improvements. Rebuilt the Android CI/CD pipeline from the ground up in Jenkins, resolving legacy tech debt and streamlining the FM team’s release workflow. Established data parity for a new Stage environment, enabling reliable pre-production testing, and handled end-to-end AWS deployment workflows including Lambda functions, ECS task definitions, and CodePipeline configurations.

Backend Engineer (Founding Intern) at TaskHarmony, Sep 2025 - Feb 2026 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Science, Computational Science, BITS-PILANI

Public links

github: https://github.com/iyad-f

iyadf.com: https://iyadf.com/