Shadid Chowdhury
Director Of Engineering at Infoblox
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolShadid Chowdhury is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building data platforms, API tools, and distributed systems, now serving as Director of Engineering at Infoblox in Vancouver. He combines hands-on backend expertise (Java, Spark, Python) with strategic leadership—scaling teams, improving development processes, and delivering production-grade data and API solutions across companies like AWS, SmartBear and Telenor. His work spans data platform architecture, ETL/analytics, and API virtualization, and he has a history of driving metric accuracy and operational improvements at scale. An active contributor to the well-known SoapUI project, he has fixed tricky URL path encoding issues and added robust test coverage, showing an attention to detail that complements his leadership. With a Master’s in Distributed Systems from KTH and executive training from Yale SOM, he blends technical depth with product and people-focused management. Notably, he often bridges gaps between engineering, product and operations to turn complex integrations into repeatable, self-serve capabilities.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with minor in MIS, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with minor in MIS at North South UniversityMaster’s Degree Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, Master’s Degree Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyLeading and Managing Globally, Leading and Managing Globally at Yale School of Management
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
javas10
junit10
url-encoding10
java10
test-automation10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
license-key6
soapui6
soap6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SmartBear/soapui
Jan 2013 - Nov 2014
SoapUI is a free and open source cross-platform functional testing solution for APIs and web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:397 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Shadid primarily focused on improving the path encoding issues by enhancing the `HttpRequestFilter.java` and `HttpRequestFilterPathEncodingTestCase.java` files. These changes involved resolving URL encoding and decoding issues related to request paths and parameters. The user also added unit tests and implemented additional validation tests to ensure code reliability. Furthermore, there are updates to deployment scripts, specifically in the soapui-installer, suggesting an interest in deployment configurations.
functional-testingsoapuiwebserviceon-premsoapui-oss
shadidchowdhury/test-git-plugin
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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