Usama Amjad
Backend Engineering at Spotify
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolUsama Amjad is a backend engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across startups and large media companies, now contributing at Spotify from Sweden. He has led technical initiatives end-to-end—from founding-engineer and CTO responsibilities at a logistics startup to staff-level backend roles at Warner Bros. Discovery—specializing in Java, Go, microservices, and cloud migrations (AWS and Google Cloud). Notable achievements include breaking a legacy monolith into microservices, designing subscription and campaign platforms, and creating dataflow pipelines to handle order events at scale. Usama combines hands-on system design with people leadership, having hired and grown engineering teams, served as Scrum Master, and owned technical strategy and vendor partnerships. Colleagues appreciate his appetite for learning and knowledge sharing, and his background in both electrical engineering and computer science gives him a pragmatic, systems-oriented perspective.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and TechnologyAssociate's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associate's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at SBTE
English
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Github Skills (72)
backend10
backend-api10
api10
csharp10
strings10
signalr10
javascript9
dotnet9
sql9
dynamic-programming9
dijkstra9
matrix-multiplication9
docker9
dotnet-core9
geometry9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UsamaAmjad/AdPostingRestAPI
May 2019 - Oct 2019
A simple REST API for car ad posting
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 months
apirestrest-apipostingcar
UsamaAmjad/MessageBoard
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
A RESTful API to serve as the backend for a public message board
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
apirestfulmessage-boardservebackend
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