Summary
Shafeeq Rabbani is a Software Engineer II based in Toronto with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Microsoft, he focuses on high-traffic distributed services for Teams, driving reliability to 99.9% through incident leadership and scalable API design in C#. His background blends cloud-native backend development (Flask, Python, Docker, AWS) with embedded and electromechanical systems knowledge from McMaster and George Brown, enabling pragmatic solutions for both hardware-adjacent and pure software problems. He has a track record of shipping production-ready services from scratch—such as crop disease prediction and fungicide-timing APIs—and improving operational observability with monitoring and automated alerts. Colleagues describe him as outcome-driven and curious, often surfacing non-obvious performance insights that influence product design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering (Embedded Systems), Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering (Embedded Systems) at McMaster University
Advanced Diploma Electromechanical Technology/Electromechanical Engineering Technology, Advanced Diploma Electromechanical Technology/Electromechanical Engineering Technology at George Brown College
English School Fahaheel Kuwait
English, Urdu, Hindi