Personal details
Shahbaz H.
Technical skills
About
I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and scaling high-performance, production-grade web platforms. I specialize in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, and cloud-native infrastructure, with deep experience designing API-first systems and distributed backend services that operate reliably at scale.
Most recently, I’ve worked on high-traffic consumer platforms where performance, scalability, and system design directly impact business outcomes. I’ve led initiatives involving frontend architecture optimization, real-time backend services, and AI-powered features — including recommendation systems and LLM integrations — delivering measurable improvements in engagement, latency, and reliability.
I’m particularly interested in solving complex systems problems at the intersection of product and infrastructure: scalable APIs, ingestion pipelines, data modeling, caching strategies, observability, and production AI systems. I enjoy turning ambiguous ideas into clean technical designs and collaborating closely with product, design, and research teams to ship thoughtful, high-impact features.
Beyond engineering execution, I bring strong ownership, attention to detail, and a continuous learning mindset. I’m motivated by building tools and platforms that remove friction, empower users, and drive meaningful business growth.
Work Experience
• Served as the senior engineer and technical lead for a 5-person engineering team, owning architecture, technical direction, and end-to-end delivery of initiatives within Groupon’s Marketplace Search & Discovery platform from development through deployment, production support, and continuous optimization.
• Architected and implemented customer-facing search, discovery, and personalization experiences using React, Next.js, React Native, TypeScript, GraphQL, Redux, and Tailwind CSS, improving deal discovery, category navigation, page performance, and customer engagement across Groupon’s marketplace.
• Designed and developed scalable GraphQL APIs and backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and AWS, supporting high-volume marketplace discovery and transaction workflows while improving system reliability and scalability.
• Built AI-powered personalization and recommendation capabilities using Python, OpenAI APIs, semantic search, embeddings, and machine learning-driven ranking strategies, delivering tailored deal recommendations based on customer behavior, browsing activity, and purchase history..
• Established CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and cloud deployment processes using GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront), improving release reliability and operational efficiency.
• Led production incident investigations, performance optimization initiatives, and root-cause analysis efforts across distributed systems, improving platform stability, response times, and operational visibility.
• Mentored engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, architecture discussions, and design reviews while driving adoption of AI-assisted development workflows using Claude Code and Cursor to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery consistency across the team.
• Served as a key engineering contributor in a fast-paced startup environment, building and scaling B2B SaaS platforms from MVP to production across healthcare and fintech domains.
• Architected and developed modern web applications using React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and Java, delivering scalable solutions for enterprise customers.
• Designed secure REST APIs, multi-tenant backend services, authentication systems, and third-party integrations including payment gateways, healthcare workflows, and real-time dashboards.
• Built cloud-native infrastructure and deployment pipelines using AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD practices, improving platform reliability and operational efficiency.
• Collaborated directly with founders, product managers, and customers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions while balancing rapid delivery with long-term maintainability.