Bashir Shafii
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer at Hello! Caafi
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBashir Shafii is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, highly automated infrastructure. He specializes in DevOps and AWS architecture—designing fault-tolerant systems, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and CloudFormation—while leveraging Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments. His background spans senior engineering and business-analysis roles across healthcare and finance, giving him a pragmatic edge in translating complex requirements into reliable production systems. As CTO at Hello! Caafi and formerly at Black Swan Solutions, he has led technical teams, hiring and training junior talent while owning product delivery and P&L responsibilities. Based in Minneapolis, he combines startup grit with enterprise discipline, emphasizing observability, security, and operational resilience. Outside core tooling, his MSE and psychology undergraduate training inform a user-centered approach to systems design and cross-functional collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), PSYCHOLOGY at The University of North DakotaMaster of Software Engineering (MSE), Master of Software Engineering (MSE) at North Dakota State University
Swahili, Somali, English, ArabicGithub contributions (5)
bashirshafii/my-pwp-bashir
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
bashirshafii/data-design
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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