Huzaifa Elahi is a Full Stack Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently at Navattic after four years as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. He co-founded Neat, leading backend architecture to help teams retain and reuse information, and has a track record of improving performance and efficiency—at Index Exchange he reduced ad-auction latency and memory usage in a high-throughput Perl codebase. A McGill Software Engineering graduate (3.90 GPA, Dean’s Honor List), he blends strong academic foundations with practical product experience across startups and large enterprises. He’s comfortable across the stack—from responsive UIs and Vue.js prototypes to cloud-native services and telemetry—and has contributed to robotics navigation and ROS tooling during his university projects. Based in Old Toronto, he brings entrepreneurial grit, a measurable performance-first mindset, and experience shipping production services under strict scale and latency constraints.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Pre-Engineering, A*AA, High School, Pre-Engineering, A*AA at Roots Millennium School
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, CGPA: 3.90, Dean’s Honor List, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, CGPA: 3.90, Dean’s Honor List at McGill University
GitHub App/Action that automates the creation of issue branches
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 7 branches in 23 days
automatesbranchesautomationcreation
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