Syed Shah
Software Engineer at Kijiji Canada- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Kijiji Canada
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Canada
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Technology, Information and Internet
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200 - 300 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2021 - Present
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BenchMatrix
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Bahrain
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Technology, Information and Internet
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
- Independently designed and deployed ELK stack for data availability (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)- Implemented cron jobs for routinely populating ElasticSearch cluster with newly available data such as orders, inventory, etc.- Leveraged ElasticSearch to create a RESTful Global Search microservice implemented in Java using Spring for frontend clients such as mobile applications thus optimizing search efficiency by improving item discovery- Worked closely with Business Intelligence team to implement dashboard for reporting key metrics aggregated through ELK and visualizations which drove the business decisions- Trained and integrated speech recognition feature (using WIT.AI) in app to increase product value by providing a more personalized user experience- Used best practices to deploy highly available and fault tolerant microservices on GCP
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Ontario Power Generation
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Canada
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Utilities
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
- Implemented core logic of User Reply Rate in Spring based Java microservice responsible for posting and managing data to provide more insight to users- Reduced database query latency while increasing lookup performance by implementing in-memory cache thus effectively reducing operation costs by 15% - Independently developed an internal log monitoring tool that would allow engineers to view and download logs easily resulting in reduced mean time to resolution by 75%- Independently designed, implemented and deployed RESTful API & microservices to monitor and update status of all ongoing processes in the power plants resulting in increased efficiency by ~ 30%- Reporting BRD & FRD from in-depth analysis giving managers the ability to make informed decisions for their software process.- Carried out scrum meetings with seniors and executives to consistently deliver high quality productivity
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Maxima Consulting
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
-Designed and developed database for new and old applications that reduced operation costs by ~10%- Responsible for enhancements and maintenance to API gateway e.g: authentication- Implemented new UI and API endpoints to fetch and live display computed data- Wrote numerous unit tests to increase coverage in order to reduce run-time errors- Increased test coverage by 12% and documented all test results- Optimized search efficiency by implementing customized filters- Improved user experience by implementing client side caching using service workers- Bridge between technical team and the stakeholders on processes, tools, timelinesand individual responsibilities to ensure accuracy
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Education
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York University
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology -
University of Cambridge
High School, Information Technology