Abdul Khan
Principal Engineer at Wizehire
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdul Khan is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems for startups and large enterprises across e-commerce, telecom, travel, and SaaS. He specializes in GitOps-driven infrastructure modernization—having moved teams to Kubernetes and AWS EKS to boost scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency while enabling rapid CI/CD rollouts. Known for shipping high-throughput platforms (including a GraphQL Edge handling billions of requests/day) and payment/order systems processing tens of thousands of transactions, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership. Abdul also contributes to open-source tooling around core backend concerns, including a cross-platform AES encryption library, and has a track record of reducing operational pain (e.g., cutting call-center load by 90%). Based in Windsor, Ontario, he pairs a strong academic foundation in electronics and IT (4.0 GPAs) with a talent for turning MVPs into production-grade, auditable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electronics Engineering, GPA 4.0 / 4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Electronics Engineering, GPA 4.0 / 4.0 at RCC Institute of TechnologyPost Graduate Certification, Information Technology Solutions, GPA 4.0 / 4.0, Post Graduate Certification, Information Technology Solutions, GPA 4.0 / 4.0 at Humber College
arabic (work in progress), Hindi, English
Github Skills (9)
aes-encryption10
javascript10
nodejs10
cryptography10
babeljs8
gulp8
babel68
babel-core8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
navneet83/Cross-platform-AES-encryption
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Basic cross platform AES encryption
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Abdul primarily contributed to implementing the core functionalities of a cross-platform AES encryption library using JavaScript and Node.js. Their work includes creating classes and methods for encryption, decryption, key generation, and random IV generation. They also established the project structure, implemented unit tests, and configured the build process using Gulp and Babel. Their contributions focused on the underlying cryptographic logic and core functionality of the library.
aes-encryption
invalidred/ui-starter-kit
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
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