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Laiq A. - Remote back-end developer

Laiq A.

Based in: 🇨🇦 Canada
Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

- I have strong experience Architecting and building highly scalable APIs. Lead teams, reviewed code/PRs.

- 4+ Years of experience with golang, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins and Prometheus.

- Have been involved in Building teams (Interviewing, Hiring and mentoring team members).

- Strong production experience working with production systems, monitoring, collecting metrics and building visualizations around those metrics.

- I have build large scale data pipelines, migrating systems from legacy systems into the cloud based systems.

- Have worked with Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, Helm chart and Kustomize.

- Strong communication skills and have lead teams for complex projects.

Work Experience

Staff Systems Developer
IAAS, Medallia | Jun 2021 - Present
Java
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Kubernetes
Go (Golang)
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • Worked on design and development of storage management applications.
  • Was part of team that would support other teams with their storage requirements.
  • Built metrics collection systems along with monitoring systems to handle the different events in production as well. Involved in on call duties as well.

Technologies used: Java, Golang, Cadence, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, S3, EC2ja

Senior Software Engineer
Infoblox Jan | Jan 2019 - May 2021
Amazon EC2
Docker
Kubernetes
Go (Golang)
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • Designed and built Recycle bin for complex microservices product involving complex object structures.
  • Using AWS infrastructure (RDS, AWS Lambda, EC2, S3), Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus etc. to build scalable backend applications in the cloud and supporting OnPrem applications on the customer side.

Technologies used: Golang, Amazon RDS, EC2, Docker, Kubernetes

Education

Lahore University of Management Sciences
Master's degree・Computer Science
Sep 2005 - Sep 2007