Summary
Danial Mohazab is a software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems and scalable services across startups and large tech companies. A University of Waterloo Mechatronics graduate, he has shipped features and architecture improvements at Shopify, Flexport, HelloFresh, and OANDA, and moved into security- and product-adjacent roles at 1Password and Augment. He has a strong track record optimizing Rails and service performance—introducing batch loaders to eliminate N+1 queries and improving call efficiency up to 8x—and has built data and ML solutions that boosted model accuracy from 48% to 89% and delivered a 97% prediction for mortgage funding in earlier work. Comfortable across Python, Java, and Ruby ecosystems, he also designs resilient backend architectures with worker patterns, GraphQL APIs, and cloud-native deployments. Beyond implementation, he blends product thinking with engineering execution, having led feature ideation, user research, and technical design for cross-functional teams. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and measurable impact when taking systems from prototype to production.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo