Zarrar Shaikh
Senior DevOps & AI Application Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZarrar Shaikh is a Senior DevOps & AI Application Engineer with 10 years of experience building cost-conscious, reliable cloud infrastructure and AI-enhanced internal tooling. He excels at turning manual production systems into IaC-driven, low-downtime platforms, having migrated 20+ services, slashed deploy times from 50+ minutes to under 15, and cut cloud spend by up to 25%. His work spans the full stack—authoring reusable Terraform modules, standardizing CI/CD, optimizing databases with read replicas and async flows, and deploying self-hosted vector databases for AI features. An active open-source contributor to the Frappe/ERPNext ecosystem, he brings practical QA and frontend experience that complements his backend and automation skills. Notably, he built an in-house AI-powered CRM that aggregates email, calendar, meeting notes and session replay to accelerate onboarding and debugging, demonstrating a knack for shipping tools teams actually use.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Certificate PCM, Higher Secondary Certificate PCM at METAS Adventist SchoolCertificate of Achievement Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Certificate of Achievement Web Page Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Humber CollegeBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Babaria Institute of Technology and Science
English, Hindi
Github Skills (27)
uitest10
debug10
javascript10
erpnext10
python10
testing10
data-export10
ui-design10
full-stack10
import-data10
data-import10
uid10
qunit10
frappe10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frappe/hrms
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Open Source HR and Payroll Software
Role in this project:
Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zarrar primarily contributed to the ERPNext HRMS project by implementing and refining features related to employee management, leave applications, and payroll. They addressed bugs in various areas like calendar views and report generation, along with improvements to the user interface, specifically, in testing scenarios and adding front-end components like tree views. Their work involved modifications to Python backend code, JavaScript front-end code, and the overall structure of the HRMS system.
payrollshift-managementhrmserpperformance-management
frappe/erpnext
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:270 commits, 277 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Zarrar's primary contribution focuses on testing and UI implementation within the ERPNext platform, specifically the Frappe/ERPNext repository. Their work involves creating and implementing UI tests, with a focus on testing various features and modules like schools, student applications, and different elements within the sales invoice module. Furthermore, they demonstrate expertise in the QuNit testing framework.
procurementpythonhrmsfrappeprofit
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