nawab alam
@nawabalam
Technical Lead & Senior Member of Technical Staff, architecting secure multi-region distributed systems.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) and technical lead with 6+ years architecting business-critical, multi-region distributed systems and leading the engineers who deliver them. I combine deep hands-on engineering with stakeholder alignment to raise delivery, reliability, and security standards across the organization.
I’ve led teams of up to 6 engineers and owned cross-team architecture and technical direction through design docs, ADRs, and infrastructure-as-code. On DXF’s multi-region expansion under the Hyperforce program, I drove Terraform-based AWS infrastructure across us-east-1 and eu-west-1, delivered EU data residency with zero breaking changes, and managed multi-cluster EKS deployments via Helm/Helmfile and Jenkins (SFCI) release pipelines.
For PRISM, I replaced manual VAT workflows with modular event-driven infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, SQS/DynamoDB, CDK), consolidated 5+ tools, and cut on-call load by ~60% while scaling validation throughput to 3.4M+ validations/year. I’m also passionate about hardening resilience—like cross-region disaster recovery and migrating AWS SDK v1→v2—to eliminate end-of-life dependency risk and strengthen security.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Architected and led the multi-region expansion of DXF, setting cross-team architecture direction via design docs/ADRs and partnering with producer/consumer teams. Delivered EU data residency with Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, multi-cluster EKS deployments, and multi-region CI/CD while migrating from AWS SDK v1 to v2.
Led a team of SDEs and owned cross-team architecture to replace manual VAT workflows with event-driven AWS infrastructure provisioned as code. Improved reliability (reduced on-call ~60%), scaled validation throughput to 3.4M+ validations/year, and supported compliance enforcement with Step Functions orchestration.
Migrated tax computation from BI (Redshift) to Apache Spark jobs, improving SLA from 72h to 36h for 122K+ EU sellers and integrating multiple sources into raw/intermediate/final tables. Built Cradle pipeline jobs for pre-computation, aggregation, and validation with discrepancy monitoring and alerting, optimizing SQL for performance and cost.
Migrated IQ data from on-prem to Azure Blob Storage and built a caching layer for object storage to improve IQ performance. Implemented and supported the data movement using LOAD/UNLOAD workflows.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
IIIT Hyderabad
M.Tech, Computer Science Engineering
Grade: 8.06/10
Completed an M.Tech in Computer Science Engineering at IIIT Hyderabad. Earned a GPA of 8.06/10.
NIT Raipur
B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering
Grade: 7.88/10
Completed a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering at NIT Raipur. Earned a GPA of 7.88/10.
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