Summary
Yasir Shoaib is a Principal Engineer and cloud-native specialist with over a decade of experience delivering production-grade platform and DevOps solutions at Scotiabank and major enterprises like Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Epson and Honeywell. He combines hands-on architecture and coding with team leadership and coaching, having led cloud infrastructure teams and driven Platform/DevOps engineering across global operations. His background includes building mission-critical systems—such as pension payroll software handling billions in annual payouts—and applying academic rigor from a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering to practical, testable designs. Known for bridging research-quality thinking with pragmatic delivery, he emphasizes observability, CI/CD automation and meeting both functional and non-functional requirements. Based in Canada, he thrives on solving complex infrastructure problems and mentoring teams to produce reliable, well-documented software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at George S. Henry Academy