Abdulaziz Elsheikh
@abdulazizelsheikh
Staff Software Engineer crafting distributed, cloud-native systems and mentoring teams to engineer excellence.
United KingdomWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Staff Software Engineer with over 12 years designing, building, and delivering distributed, cloud-native systems, including more than 7 years in finance & fintech. I’m a polyglot across C#/.NET, Java, Go, and Python, with a strong bias toward practical architecture and measurable outcomes.
I thrive in highly regulated, high-throughput environments, leading end-to-end architecture and performance remediation for critical regulatory reporting platforms. I’ve driven observability maturity, identified systemic bottlenecks, and delivered large-scale architectural changes (including distributed actors and integrated instrumentation) to achieve over 10× performance improvement and enable horizontal scalability.
I’m an embedded expert consultant who guides engineering teams on architecture, design quality, and best practices, and I lead with a collaborative, positive culture—trust, open communication, and high team morale. As an agile lead and mentor, I continuously improve delivery through CI/CD ownership, documentation, and AI-assisted development practices.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Delivered BI, data warehouse, and ETL platforms supporting large-scale analytical workloads. Re-architected 200+ SSIS packages into parameterised pipelines, reducing operational overhead and improving performance, reliability, and maintainability; built a semantic layer for low-latency, on-demand analytics and live Power BI reporting.
Senior Software Engineer
Cisiv Ltd
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years)
Tech-led internal and external projects, owning architecture, delivery, sprint planning, mentoring, and releases, including senior client-facing technical representation. Owned CI/CD and release pipelines using BuildMaster, improving delivery reliability and cadence, and led a first client delivery that received zero negative feedback while establishing a new internal quality benchmark.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Abertay University
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computing
2009 - 2013
Grade: First Class Honours
Activities and societies: Urban water research developer; student course representative. Awards: Mitchell Prize (best performance in the field of communication) and Andrew De Vries honour (distinctive academic excellence).
Earned a BSc (Hons) in Computing and graduated with First Class Honours. Worked as a developer as part of the university’s urban water research and served as a student course representative.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
United KingdomAuthorized to work in
Portfolio
github.com/a-elsheikhJob categories
Interested in hiring Abdulaziz?
You can contact Abdulaziz and 90k+ other talented remote workers on Himalayas.
Message AbdulazizFind your dream job
Sign up now and join over 100,000 remote workers who receive personalized job alerts, curated job matches, and more for free!
