Irfan Shaik
(609)-613-1417 | Seattle, WA | irfanshaik11@gmail.com
SKILLS
Over 10,000 lines:
Python • C • C++
Over 5,000 lines:
Java • Go • Matlab • LATEX
Familiar:
MySQL • Javascript • Haskell • AWS
Lambda • AWS EC2 • AWS S3 •
Kubernetes • Docker • Linux (RHEL,
DEB) • Git • Flask • DynamoDB •
MongoDB • Assembly • OCaml
EDUCATION
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
BS IN MATHEMATICS, APPLIED
ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE
Aug 2015 - Dec 2019| Piscataway, NJ
AWARDS
2018 | 2nd Solo Hack | RU Hacks
2018 | 1st /56 | CS440 Final Project
2015 | 2nd /State | National Science League
2015 | National | Nat. Merit Scholarship
COURSEWORK
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Algorithms I & II, Data Structures,
Software Engineering,
Systems Programming, Artificial
Intelligence (Highest Score in Class on Final Project) ACM-ICPC NEW YORK REGIONAL
Principles of Programming Languages,
Formal Languages & Automata
MATHEMATICS
Linear Algebra, Discrete Math,
Multivariable Calculus, Partial
Differential Equations,
Probability Theory, Statistical Theory
Graph Theory, Combinatorial Theory
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Computer Architecture, Digital Logic,
Electrical Engineering I & II, Computing
for Engineers, Physics I & II, Probability &
Random Processes,
ACTIVITIES
Rutgers Club Soccer Team | Played soccer
competitively against other universities.
Thaakat | Organized events as part of a
south asian cultural charity group, raised
$10,000+ for charity.
Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity | Participated sized buffers and debugged server-side thread management.
in leadership and learning events as a
member of 50,000+ member fraternity.
EXPERIENCE
SENDBIRD | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
July 2020 - Present | Seattle WA
• Build and maintain core messaging backend service for #1 messaging API
serving Reddit, Yahoo, Patreon with > 100 million monthly active users
• Built low latency encryption at rest feature in Python, Django, AWS to prevent
leak in case of db compromised, rewrote several endpoints to decrease latency
AMAZON | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
June 2019 – June 2020 | Seattle, WA
• Worked in Automatic Speech Recognition, on one of the most visible teams and
critical teams to Alexa to convert speech to text.
• Built scripting tools in Python to automate cluster creation, a distributed
logger, and backend API with C++ to delete sensitive data in binary file formats
• Contributed to deep learning software built on C++ and Python on tensorflow
2.0 and went on-call to ensure continuous deployment for team’s pipelines
• Built acoustic modeling web API to deploy models on petabytes of data via
distributed training, productionized papers into recipes for model training
NBCUNIVERSAL | SOFTWARE ENGINEER (ML INFRASTRUCTURE)
Sep 2018 – Dec 2018 | Greater New York City Area, NY
• I lead and shipped an automatic language detection platform servicing 1500
hours of content per day
• Wrote efficient thread safe multithreaded Python code which interacted with
AWS EC2 and AWS S3 and Microsoft Azure as well as master memory
• Created novel technique to increase accuracy and reduce cost by taking 15
second audio clips using FFMPEG and a VAD and applying K-means clustering.
• Created error logging utility in Python and posted live updates to Dynamo DB
COMPETITIONS
Rutgers University Team placed 6th in ACM-ICPC New York Regional Competition
Wrote time and space efficient C++ code for competitions, and received one-on-one
mentoring from previous competition winners
RESEARCH
HARVARD UNIVERSITY | CASE ASSISTANT
Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, MA
Worked with Professor Deneffe on a case advising a security company pricing its
on-site surveillance technology as part of a selective 4-week program
RUTGERS CBIM LAB | RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 | Piscataway, NJ
Contributed to Department of defense funded project to detect bots on social media
sites. Used ElasticSearch and Kibana to catalogue and retrieve user data. Applied ML
techniques on graphs to detect aberrant behavior using Python and Neo4J
PROJECTS
GIT CLONE > github.com/irfanshaik11/GitProject
Replica of Git in C using thread coordination and mutual exclusion locks to
solve producer consumer problem. Built client side scripts with dynamically