Zohair Shaikh
Senior Software Engineer at AI71
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolZohair Shaikh is a senior software engineer based in Dubai with eight years of experience building scalable backend systems, most recently at AI71. He combines an MBA in IT with hands-on expertise in RESTful APIs, SOA, cloud migrations, and integration work, having driven end-to-end architecture and deployments for high-traffic products like Talabat’s DineOut. Known for championing observability and modern CI/CD practices, he has improved platform reliability through centralized logging, distributed tracing, and infrastructure-as-code. His background spans startup to consultancy—founding-team product work, leading a team of six as a technical lead, and practising XP/TDD at ThoughtWorks—so he blends delivery speed with engineering discipline. Colleagues rely on him for clear RFCs and pragmatic design decisions that balance scalability with maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MBA - IT Computer Software Engineering, MBA - IT Computer Software Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zohairshaikh/Deck-of-Cards
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 commits in 1 day
nikkhilkharade/parkingScript
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Problem Solution for the parking problem statement
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 comments in 1 day
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