Summary
Syed Mukhtar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 10 years’ experience building cloud-native, serverless, and full-stack systems across finance, research, and government sectors. He specializes in AWS serverless architectures—Lambda, AppSync (GraphQL), DynamoDB, Aurora—and applies Infrastructure as Code (SAM, CloudFormation, CDK) to deliver scalable, secure backends. Comfortable across Python, Java, .NET and frontend frameworks like React and Angular, he balances hands-on development with code review and mentoring to raise engineering standards. His background spans payments, scientific platforms (ReefCloud), and enterprise banking automation, giving him a practical blend of security-first and cost-efficient design. Syed’s Masters in Software Engineering complements a pattern-focused approach to clean architecture and production readiness, and he actively bridges backend and frontend concerns to ensure seamless API-driven integrations. Notably, he pairs deep cloud expertise with a history of building IoT and research prototypes, reflecting a steady curiosity for applied systems and emerging tech.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of IT (Software Engineering), Masters of IT (Software Engineering) at Charles Darwin University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at NED University of Engineering and Technology
English