Iyaz Shaikh
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIyaz Shaikh is a senior software developer with 8+ years building production systems across aerospace, finance, e-commerce, and consumer mobile. He combines backend expertise in Java, Go, Rust and Ruby with modern front-end and mobile stacks (Angular, TypeScript, Cordova) and strong cloud-native experience using AWS Lambdas, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka/Kinesis and CI/CD pipelines. At Northrop Grumman he shipped public-facing CBP services and even integrated Tesseract.JS for OCR, while at Capital One he architected streaming data apps and observability with Datadog/Splunk. Now at Shopify he continues to evolve his polyglot skillset while focusing on scalable, test-driven delivery. Known for bridging legacy systems and cloud infrastructure, he brings a practical mix of hands-on engineering, automated pipelines, and an appetite for solving real-world UX and operational challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Virginia TechMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
simulate10
alarm10
testing10
proxy10
clock10
chaos10
go10
tcp10
resiliency10
procfile9
html8
ruby-on-rails8
api8
lua8
rails8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/goluago
Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
Lua wrappers for the Go standard library
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
golangluawrappersstandard-library
iyaz-shaikh/GodotPlayground
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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