Gazenfar Syed
Software Engineer at Nextdoor
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGazenfar Syed is a full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable cloud and edge-enabled systems, currently at Nextdoor after roles at DoorDash, MicroMart, and Amazon. He has a strong AWS pedigree—designing Lambda/DynamoDB services and an authentication framework that unlocked $15M in incremental sales—and a knack for end-to-end product work, from React front-ends to hardware-integrated image recognition for retail cameras. Comfortable shipping high-throughput solutions, he cut bulk processing times by 95% at Amazon and built inventory planning APIs and device integrations at MicroMart. A McMaster Software Engineering graduate based in Toronto, he blends production-grade backend engineering with hands-on full-stack delivery and user-centered requirements gathering across global teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - B.Eng Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - B.Eng Software Engineering at McMaster University
Github Skills (11)
dependency-free8
fluid6
embla-carousel6
javascript6
slideshow6
vue6
react6
typescript5
svelte4
mobile-web4
mobile3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
syedg1/LiveFeed
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
syedg1/MovieGuide
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.