Kareem Sheik
Software Engineering Lead at Optum
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKareem Sheik is a software engineer with 10 years’ experience building distributed systems and AI-powered backends, currently driving high-availability financial infrastructure at JPMorgan Chase. He previously led a 10+ engineer team at Optum, delivering microservices, event-driven pipelines, and production RAG systems that blend cloud-native reliability with emerging AI patterns. His core stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Azure, and Kubernetes, and he is actively expanding into AI engineering with tools like LangChain, LangGraph, and ChromaDB. An active contributor to blockchain-finance tooling, he implemented and tested core fund-ranking and compliance features in the Enzyme protocol, showing a mix of backend, QA, and smart-contract experience. Based in Hyderabad, he pairs a master’s in computer science with a practical, systems-first approach to solving large-scale, latency-sensitive problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, KakinadaMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu
Github Skills (6)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain10
testing10
protocols9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
enzymefinance/protocol
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Enzyme Protocol Implementation
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kareem primarily contributed to the Enzyme Protocol's backend implementation, focusing on smart contract development and testing. They added and tested core functionalities such as fund ranking, including methods to retrieve fund details, share prices, and names. Furthermore, they implemented and tested compliance features, including functions to verify investment and redemption eligibility. The user also wrote integration tests to validate the functionality of the fund ranking contract.
enzymeblockchaindefiethereumprotocol
ahmedkareem999/MITx-6.00.1x
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Introduction to computer science and programming using python- MITx 6.00.1x
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 1 day
introduction-to-computer-sciencepythonsciencecomputer-sciencemitx
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.