Faizan Shaikh
Software Engineer at Amazon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolFaizan Shaikh is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable, secure cloud-native systems and full-stack applications, currently on the engineering team at Amazon after a recent stint at Siemens Healthineers. He holds a Master's in Software Engineering from Northeastern and has deep hands-on experience with Python, Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and CI/CD tooling to operate large IoT platforms and real-time healthcare communication systems. As a co-founder of an AI startup, he led microservices for speech-to-text and meeting summarization, blending ML models with production-grade APIs and deployments. Faizan has a proven track record of improving system performance and reliability—reducing deployment time by 90%, increasing API throughput by 37%, and introducing robust monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering, and his GitHub humor hints at a developer who experiments widely and keeps the occasional accidental gem.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Navrachana UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering at Northeastern University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (124)
media-player10
visual-studio10
convolutional-neural-networks10
editor10
darknet10
api10
xbmc10
electron10
windows-desktop10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
kodi10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shfaizan/Data_Structure
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Add the algorithm in any language
Contributions:12 PRs, 46 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
javajavascriptany-language
Faizan-portfolio/Faizan-portfolio.github.io
Dec 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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