1. 10 S Grant St
San Mateo, CA - 94401 AZEEM SHAIKH Cell: +1-704-241-2484
Email: azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
SUMMARY
M.S. in Computer Engineering with 3+ years experience with building large-scale production software.
Experienced in design of scalable distributed systems, backend architecture and machine learning.
Technologies:
• Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, Scala, C/C++, Objective-C, Perl, PHP
• Frameworks: Django, Angular, Apache Hadoop, Databricks/Apache Spark, Lucene
• Storage & Databases: MySQL, AWS DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, Memcache
• Amazon Web Services: SQS, SNS, S3, SES, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53, OpsWork
EMPLOYMENT
Software Developer getExp Inc. Apr ’15 - Present
Unified Messaging Platform with Artificial Intelligence
• Designed and implemented the backend infrastructure and the data pipeline to rank incoming content by
importance based on historical user behavior
• Solved user scalability problems by recommending an asynchronous, distributed daemons/agents model,
which reduced user inbox population time by 70%
• Implemented a Memcache based solution for reducing database disk reads by >90%
A/B Test for Big Data Ad Platform
• Used Spark MLlib to build an advertising platform to optimize advertisement click-through rates
Payment Platform for Sloan Foundation
• Developed an end-to-end subscription based payment platform using Django and Java
• Acted as the face of the company in many situations requiring customer interaction
Test Engineering Intern Synaptics Inc. Summer 2014
• Identified possible parallelism in code and improved performance by 3 times
• Contributed to the development of a Perl compiler/interpreter
• Implemented scripts to automate software revision control and validation of version-to-version changes
Product Engineer Startup Acquired by ANSYS Inc. Jul ’11 – Jul ‘13
• Helped the startup acquire a new customer by solving an existing customer problem using our product
hence proving value of the product
• Innovated a new feature which became a licensed feature in production code
• Responsible for handling customer issues and providing training to customers
EDUCATION
• Masters in Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Fall 2014 – Dec 2015
• Bachelor of Science, NITK-Suratkal in INDIA, 2007-11
ONLINE PROFILE
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azeem-shaikh-8aa95a34
• GitHub: https://github.com/azeemshaikh38
• HackerRank, ranked among the top 250 programmers in the U.S.: https://hackerrank.com/azeemshaikh38