About

Shad M Khan is a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer with over 10 years of expertise in object-oriented and procedural software development and architecture. He has a strong background in creating re-usable distributed microservices using both orchestration and choreography design patterns. Shad has extensive experience as an architect in native cloud solutions with AWS, having built and deployed various services from scratch using AWS infrastructure and tools like Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Simple Email Service, and S3. Shad is experienced in designing and developing scalable, highly available systems. He has in-depth knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, operating systems, and distributed systems. He has a strong proficiency in the implementation of simple to complex data structures, including trees, maps, graphs, and is familiar with advanced algorithms like Dijkstra's, DFS, BFS, Hashing along with space and time complexities. Shad has hands-on experience on Docker and containerized deployment. He has excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders. Currently, Shad is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Fidelity. Previously, he has worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon and Tech Lead at Zycus. At Zycus, he designed and developed the backend engine of a distributed scalable logistics system from scratch, redesigned a real-time auction module, and developed integrations between multiple in-house products for an Item inventory project. Shad has a Technical Diploma from M.H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering and a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, AWS, Microservices, infra, Senior Software Engineer, Docker, Spring Boot, Backend, NodeJS, Java, Spring, test, Javascript, MongoDB, Jenkins, and Frontend. With 12.70 years of relevant experience, Shad is a highly skilled and accomplished software engineer.