Raheel Shahzad
Lead Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaheel Shahzad is a Lead Software Engineer with two decades of systems-level experience and over a decade in senior engineering roles at top tech companies, currently leading teams at AWS. His background spans high-scale distributed systems, crawl and indexing at Bing, session and message-based load balancing at F5, and backend telemetry and data platforms at Facebook, Airbnb, and Coupang. He has a proven track record of performance and resource optimizations—examples include multi-hundred-percent throughput improvements and dramatic memory reductions through custom compression and architectural changes. Comfortable both architecting large systems and shipping critical platform features, he blends deep protocol and storage expertise with operational rigor from running production services at internet scale. Based in Woodinville, WA, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with a habit of finding elegant engineering trade-offs that yield outsized production impact.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS CS, BS CS at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Github Skills (19)
facebook10
paradigms10
multithreading9
database8
high-performance8
oracle8
distributed-computing8
mysql8
monitoring7
golang7
controlling7
scheduler7
scalability7
distributed-systems6
configuration-management5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
raheelshahzad/NetworkPrediction
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 6 days
raheelshahzad/crm_frontend
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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