Khalid Shah Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Quant Dev Full Stack Engineer supporting Fidelity portfolio management model research.Setup & maintain CI/CD pipelines for a variety of projects.Design & develop REST API in Python using FastAPI to expose a time-series data model to consumers.Integrate authorization & role entitlements into APIs and dashboards.Design and develop data staging & caching layer for data visualization & dashboard applications.Triage & remediation planning for production application workload.Application design, code reviews, and sprint planning.

Houston, Tx

Lead a core team initiate & execute a variety of database-centric projects for a collateral valuation & optimization platform.Saved $1.5M annually by identifying gaps in data archiving processes, and prevented regulatory action by correcting data retention policies.Initiated & executed a project to optimize database partitioning & indexing scheme, leading to $500k annual savings by reducing Oracle RAC nodes and SAN storage.Conceptualized & prototyped a graph DB tool for Unix user/host permissions & access routes. This tool was used to identify impacts of hardware refreshes resulting in tighter security and long-tail cost reductions.Recruited & mentored a team of junior developers to learn & execute this graph DB concept, winning the annual JP Morgan Houston Hackathon in a pool of 240 entrants.Won the CIO Innovation Award for my role in pioneering Delphix DB Virtualization within JP Morgan.

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsible for improving system scalability, modernizing legacy DB architecture & data model to support a B2B software business that outgrew its start-up roots.Optimized a critical data loading app, reducing runtime from 35 hours per day (aggregate of multiple processes & pipelines) down to 2 hrs per day, resulting in a 90% improvement of the daily fuel delivery forecast & dispatch process.Prevented a contractual breach, penalties and severe reputational harm by revamping a customer on-boarding process for a major client. The improved process cut down the execution time from 100+ days to 3 days.

Houston, Texas, United States

Developed back-end applications in Java, C, C++, ProC, and PL/SQL to modernize the Telecheck/FDC transaction processing and settlement system.Built high-performance web-based GUI in JSP/Java integrated with C/C++ back-end processes to manage credit card clients.Led development of high-performance, modular, extensible PL/SQL framework to replace ad-hoc scripts, queries, and cron jobs performing large-scale data manipulation on real-time and batch processing systems.Initiated and implemented a variety of process & application performance improvement projects on all tiers of the application stack.Saved 3 weeks of re-work for multiple teams by creating an AWK script to retarget a new library for a large C++ code base.Initiated database performance management guidelines & developer education to make the best use of then-new technology - Oracle 8i running on Sun Fire 15k clusters.Prototyped and implemented shared memory database cache to improve clustered application performance, reducing transaction overhead by 85%.