Shakeel is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of extensive full-stack web development expertise in web, search engine, telecommunication and Big Data solutions. He influences architectural design solutions on projects; offering technical leadership, building pieces of products, is unfazed by ambiguity, can be relied upon to make well-informed decisions and navigate trade-offs effectively.
Participated in software solution design; leading the engineering team, mentoring resources, and participating in spring and scrum meetings on projects.
Wrote clean, scalable code with an emphasis on efficiency and reusability; implementing SEO best practices, managing SEM and optimizing cost per click for more mileage.
Implemented new features on projects; producing efficient software design and architecture solutions.
Oversaw documentation development throughout the software development life cycle of projects within Simplicant; mentoring junior engineers on the right processes, standards and procedures.
Provided on-call support for Simplicant as part of a rotation, diagnosing and fixing software problems at multiple levels.
Participated in Agile processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retros; maintaining code quality, organization, and automatization.
Acted as a subject matter expert for software development and engineering within Confiz; implementing new solutions on projects and mentoring resources.
Utilized sound software engineering principles to ensure that solutions are modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, and fault-tolerant.
Assisted junior resources to troubleshoot complex production issues on projects.
Worked on vFairs a leading virtual events software that helps organizations host virtual job fairs, career fairs, online trade shows and more through a virtual environment, chat tools and embedded webinars. Led frontend and backend development, implemented group chat, 1-1 chat, audio/video calls, embedded chat and improved the performance of the application.
Worked on the redesign of the complete structure of the solution including the database schema; handling the migration of the site from Classic ASP to Ruby on Rails and its existing data from MSSQL to MySQL. Implemented Sphinx for refined search, daemons to enhance the performance of the server, integrated caching for improved UX, vBulletin forums for better community experience, plugins and themes development, LDAP for SSO, and enhanced server performance monitoring.
Assisted Simplicant growth traffic to over 300k users/month, implemented SEO best practices; handling SEM and cost per click. Implemented new design frameworks, utilized testing tools, and made the website fully responsive for different devices and integrated the solution with different CV posting solutions.