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Obsessed with quality and speed 🚀

About

I am a seasoned IT professional with over 14 years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering scalable, high-performance systems. Currently, I am focused on leveraging my technical expertise and leadership skills to drive innovative solutions and align engineering strategies with organizational goals, aiming for long-term success. I specialize in system architecture design, creating scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance solutions that address complex business challenges. As a technical leader, I guide cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and ensure technical excellence across diverse projects. My proficiency in cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices allows me to streamline deployment pipelines and enhance operational efficiency through Infrastructure-as-Code. In addition, I am dedicated to performance optimization, identifying and resolving bottlenecks to ensure systems run smoothly under heavy workloads. I conduct strategic R&D and align engineering initiatives with long-term organizational objectives. My commitment to reliability and operational excellence involves designing robust incident response processes and fostering a culture of accountability to ensure high system recoverability and continuous improvement. Please contact me over LinkedIn for further details.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

deepseek

hugging face

opencode

Work experience

L5 Engineer at Coinbase, Feb 2024 - May 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I design scalable, high-performance system architectures focused on seamless user onboarding and compliance with KYC and regulatory requirements, ensuring platform can support growing user bases without compromising performance. My work emphasizes creating robust systems that not only meet technical demands but also adhere to strict regulatory standards. Security is at the forefront of my approach. I implement comprehensive application security measures to safeguard platforms from financial crimes, including money laundering and crime financing, ensuring adherence to industry regulations while maintaining user trust. I work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to align technical solutions with business objectives. Additionally, I mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical growth within the team. I take pride in writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code, conducting thorough testing and code reviews to ensure reliability and performance. My proactive approach to problem-solving enables me to tackle complex technical challenges, contributing innovative solutions that enhance products and deliver an exceptional user experience. Accomplishments: ‣ Successfully rewrote major code components from Ruby to Golang with 0% defect rate or downtime. ‣ Actively involved in maintaining and influencing the roadmap of OPA policies that forms the backbone of Coinbase’s regulatory infrastructure. ‣ Spearheaded 50+ investigations in a span of 3 months to find compliance gaps within the company.

Principal Engineer at Clipboard Health, Apr 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, Remote, I authored and collaborated on high-quality Technical Design Documents (TDDs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), driving informed decision-making across the organization. These documents played a crucial role in aligning technical strategies and ensuring clarity in complex architectural choices. I led the development of npm packages that addressed cross-cutting concerns such as authentication, instrumentation, and external database locking. These solutions provided intuitive and declarative interfaces, simplifying integration and enhancing system functionality. By streamlining DevOps processes, refining infrastructure management, and improving test coverage and code quality, I was able to reduce the development cycle time from two weeks to just two days, significantly boosting team productivity and efficiency. As a mentor, I supported four engineers, offering constructive feedback on their deliverables and conducting training sessions on Observability and Incident Response best practices, helping to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. To ensure robust observability and monitoring, I tracked and monitored key APM metrics, and established an on-call roster to provide clear accountability for addressing incidents and system anomalies promptly. Accomplishments: ‣ Led the seamless migration of a monolithic project to microservices architecture with zero glitches, coordinating efforts with a team of two engineers. ‣ Developed a company-wide authorization framework for authenticating and authorizing HTTP requests, collaborating with one engineer to ensure robust implementation. ‣ Designed and implemented decorator-based metric reporters to streamline and enhance performance monitoring. ‣ Created incident response process to ensure 24x7 monitoring of key Application Performance metrics and setting expectations about on-call roster

Pro Bono Consulting at Impactfull, Feb 2022 - Mar 2022 · 2 mos, Paris, Île-de-France, France

Tech lead at Gojek Tech, Apr 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Engineer at Gojek Tech, Feb 2019 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Full-time parenting at Career Break, Aug 2018 - Feb 2019 · 7 mos, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

10, Rajeshwar Vidyalaya, MHOW

Public links

github: https://github.com/juzerali