# saif shafeeq

saif shafeeq is a remote worker on Himalayas, Principal Software Engineer at Optum Financial, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@saifshafeeq

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Principal Software Engineer at Optum Financial, delivering Azure card platforms and a GraphRAG knowledge base for production support.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 6493k+ INR |
| Job categories | Principal Software Engineer, Software Engineering Manager, Technical Architect |
| Skills | Azure, .NET, C#, Event Driven Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Microservices, System Architecture, API Design, GenAI, RAG, Graph RAG, Python, fastAPI, Faiss, Gemini |

## About

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At Optum Financial, I lead technical delivery for card eligibility, issuance, and direct-spend platforms. I designed and delivered the ENI eligibility and issuance workflows, and built a graph-based RAG knowledge base that gives production support a single source of truth with linked answers.

Previously, at Wells Fargo, I led Azure PaaS and .NET enterprise integration products for internal applications, cutting annual cloud spend by 32%. My earlier work includes a payment gateway reporting service at Société Générale Global Solution Center, licensing audit tooling for Microsoft finance teams, and banking CRM products at Talisma Corporation.
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## Experience

### Principal Software Engineer (current)

Optum Financial. Sep 2025 - Present

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Leads end-to-end technical delivery of card eligibility, issuance and direct-spend platforms. Manages a team of 14, owns architecture, and drives AI-assisted delivery.
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Skills: Azure, .NET, Event-Driven-Architecture, Microservices, GitHub-Actions, Python, fastAPI, Faiss, Gemini, RAG, Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Power-BI, Docker, Kubernetes, Agile, SAFe, Test-Driven-Development, BDD

### VP – Lead Software Engineer

[Wells Fargo](https://himalayas.app/companies/wells-fargo). Aug 2021 - Sep 2025

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Led design and development of enterprise integration cloud products on Azure PaaS and .NET Core for 4,000+ internal applications. Cut annual cloud spend by 32% and improved deployment frequency by 45%.
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Skills: Azure, .NET-Core, Microservices, Terraform, Harness, PCF, Google-Cloud-Platform, CI-CD, Test-Driven-Development, Splunk, Agile, DevOps

### Specialist Software Engineer

[Société Générale Global Solution Center](https://himalayas.app/companies/sg-americas-operational-services-llc). Sep 2019 - Jul 2021

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Built a microservices-based payment gateway reporting service on .NET Core and Web API. Applied TDD/BDD and deployed containerised services on Docker and Kubernetes.
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Skills: .NET-Core, Web-APIs, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana, Test-Driven-Development, BDD, SpecFlow, MSTest, Moq

### Senior Software Engineer

[Harman Connect Services](https://himalayas.app/companies/harman-international). Apr 2016 - Aug 2019

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Worked on enterprise products for Microsoft and other clients, building with .NET Core, Angular, Azure Functions, and Logic Apps. Contributed to image recognition and feed distribution systems.
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Skills: .NET-Core, Web-APIs, Angular, Azure-Functions, Logic-Apps, ETL, Azure-DevOps, SQL-Server, ASP.NET-MVC, VB.NET, C#

### Software Developer

Talisma Corporation. Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

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Built a CRM platform for banks on .NET with a custom JavaScript UI framework. Designed and built a mobile CRM end to end.
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Skills: .NET, JavaScript, CRM, Mobile-Development, KPI-Metrics

### Software Engineer

Cerner Healthcare Solutions. Mar 2014 - Sep 2014

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Developed healthcare solutions using C#, ASP.NET, WCF, and SQL Server.
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Skills: C#, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL-Server

### Software Engineer

Arctern Consulting. Jun 2013 - Nov 2013

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Developed enterprise solutions using C#, ASP.NET, WCF, and SQL Server.
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Skills: C#, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL-Server

## Education

### College of Engineering and Technology, Moradabad

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering. Grade: 72.67%

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Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the College of Engineering and Technology, Moradabad, affiliated with Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow.
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## Tech stack

- Splunk
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- .NET
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
- JFrog Artifactory
- JavaScript
- Python
- C#
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Azure Service Bus
- WCF
- FastAPI
- Grafana
- Kibana
- Datadog
- Gemini
- Azure Functions
- Azure SQL Database
- Docker
- Harness
- GitHub Copilot
- Azure Logic Apps
- Faiss
- GraphRAG
- SAFe
- ASP.NET MVC
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Power BI
- Claude
- Azure

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