Shahzad Ali

I’m a Staff Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and shipping scalable distributed systems across early-stage startups and large product teams. I specialize in microservices architecture, cloud-native deployments on AWS, and TypeScript/Node.js backends with PostgreSQL.

I’ve consistently owned end-to-end delivery by translating business requirements into scalable technical designs, then leading the technical discussions that align architecture, API strategy, and execution. I’m comfortable partnering with product, architecture, and engineering teams to build multi-tenant platforms that stay maintainable as they grow.

Across my roles, I’ve built and operated services with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and real-time/event-driven features using WebSockets and Socket.IO. I’ve also architected infrastructure and deployment workflows—designing cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) and DigitalOcean, containerizing with Docker, and setting up CI/CD pipelines, testing, and monitoring.

I’m passionate about exploring AI and LLM-driven initiatives to shape engineering practices. I enjoy mentoring engineers, establishing coding standards, and focusing on performance optimization, database/query tuning, and system design that improves reliability and delivery accountability.