Zshawn Syed
Staff Software Engineer at Toast
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZshawn Syed is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years building reliable backend systems across startups and large cloud providers, currently driving engineering at Toast after roles at Braintree and AWS. He combines deep Ruby/Rails and Go experience with production-grade automation and data-streaming work, having applied performance-minded refactors and RuboCop fixes to well-known open-source projects like rspec-expectations. Comfortable in distributed systems and payment/infra domains, he has shipped services on the AWS ELB control plane and implemented realtime streaming components at scale. Zshawn pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with continuous learning—currently augmenting his AI foundations through a master’s in computer science from Georgia Tech—while enjoying hands-on projects that tighten performance and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBartlett High School
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
code-optimization10
rspec10
software-quality10
testing10
benchmarking9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rspec/rspec-expectations
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Provides a readable API to express expected outcomes of a code example
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zshawn primarily focused on improving code quality and maintainability through refactoring, optimization, and adherence to coding standards. Their contributions involved shortening string lengths, replacing `gsub` with `tr` for performance gains, and converting strings to single quotes. They also added a benchmark to compare `gsub` and `tr` performance. Furthermore, they fixed multiple RuboCop issues throughout the codebase.
apiexpressjsreadablejavascriptexpress
zsyed91/zsyed91.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Jekyll powered personal blog
Contributions:10 PRs, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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