Lead Software Engineer and Software Architect with 11+ years designing and shipping billion-scale distributed
systems, event-driven microservices, and data infrastructure across four continents. Redesigned a legacy pipeline
from 18M → 1B messages/month (50x throughput) using an Actor Model on Kafka and Kubernetes. Ingested 1 billion
rows in 10 minutes on a time-series rewrite, and cut vector-search latency by 60%. End-to-end ownership from R&D
PoC to production, spanning on-prem, multi-cloud, IoT (1M MQTT msg/sec), and corporate analytics. 5+ years leading
and mentoring teams in Agile / Scrum environments; also Developer Advocate & Pre-Sales Engineer (GITEX Berlin).
Contributed to multi-region projects for a Critical Infrastructure Energy provider, ensuring scalability, reliability, and
operational efficiency, with close collaboration between Engineering, DevOps, and Business Stakeholders. Also
worked in pure R&D, reading Distributed Consensus and SHA-256 Cryptography in Verilog papers and implementing
them.
Led engineering teams in both startups and large organizations, and equally comfortable designing system architecture
as debugging performance issues at 3 AM or implementing the tricky parts myself. Motivated by learning and
high impact, and thrive in fast-paced environments where ownership and initiative are encouraged.
Outside of tinkering with Software & LLM/AI, I enjoy hiking in the Alps and play some DOTA2 whenver I have time.
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Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Rust, Typescript/JavaScript, C#/.NET, MongoDb, PostgresDb, Kafka, MQTT, React, React Native, RabbitMQ, Similarity Search, Vector Databases, CRDT, AWS, Azure, Pulumi, Terraform
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Email: ahmad2shafiq@icloud.com
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Lead Software Engineer and Software Architect with 11+ years designing and shipping billion-scale distributed systems, event-driven microservices, and data infrastructure across four continents. Redesigned a legacy pipeline from 18M → 1B messages/month (50x throughput) using an Actor Model on Kafka and Kubernetes. Ingested 1 billion rows in 10 minutes on a time-series rewrite, and cut vector-search latency by 60%. End-to-end ownership from R&D PoC to production, spanning on-prem, multi-cloud, IoT (1M MQTT msg/sec), and corporate analytics. 5+ years leading and mentoring teams in Agile / Scrum environments; also Developer Advocate & Pre-Sales Engineer (GITEX Berlin). Contributed to multi-region projects for a Critical Infrastructure Energy provider, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency, with close collaboration between Engineering, DevOps, and Business Stakeholders. Also worked in pure R&D, reading Distributed Consensus and SHA-256 Cryptography in Verilog papers and implementing them.
Led engineering teams in both startups and large organizations, and equally comfortable designing system architecture as debugging performance issues at 3 AM or implementing the tricky parts myself. Motivated by learning and high impact, and thrive in fast-paced environments where ownership and initiative are encouraged.
Outside of tinkering with Software & LLM/AI, I enjoy hiking in the Alps and play some DOTA2 whenver I have time.