Nawab Iqbal
Staff Software Engineer II at Beyond ONE
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNawab Iqbal is a Staff Software Engineer II based in San Francisco with 15 years of experience designing and scaling search-driven, API-first SaaS platforms across startups and hyperscalers like Microsoft, Salesforce, Box, DoorDash and Sendoso. He blends hands-on engineering, system architecture and people leadership—having led microservice extractions, introduced Kafka as the async backbone, and mentored ICs into leadership while serving as an engineering manager. His work repeatedly improved core search and indexing pipelines (fast bulk reindexing, ES sharding, relevance and caching strategies) and drove measurable outcomes such as 40% reduction in delivery errors and double-digit latency and conversion gains. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs deep Lucene/Elasticsearch expertise with practical platform design for resilient, observable services. An unusual strength is translating cross-team technical choices into operational practices—prometheus metrics, distributed tracing and hiring processes—to ensure changes stick beyond the code.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of WashingtonBS Computer Sciences, BS Computer Sciences at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesDivisional Public SchoolStanford Center for Professional Development Management Science and Engineering, Stanford Center for Professional Development Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (15)
go-packages7
java6
rest5
zookeeper4
rest-api4
kafka4
docker4
event-sourcing4
spring3
kubernetes3
crud-application3
event-streaming2
spring-mvc2
kubernetes-cluster2
dataflow1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
niqbal/solr_cores
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
chkk-io/courier-go
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A Go package for communicating with the Courier REST API.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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