Mikaal Zaidi Email & Phone Number

Uber Freight Seattle Site Lead- In addition to my role as Full Stack Engineer at Uber Freight- Advocate for engineers at the Seattle site that spanned multiple remote teams. - Drove mentorship, morale events and advocating for site concerns and visibility to leadership.- Employee integration with Uber Seattle site

Uber Freight Full Stack Engineer for Carrier Experiences- A technical leader that spanned multiple teams across multiple disciplines for web, mobile and backend teams. Ensured teams met or beat deadlines and solved technical roadblocks. - Mobile Team - Lead initiatives that eliminated duplicate UI components, encouraged reuse of known good components and built partnerships with platform teams to give Uber Freight visibility at Uber. - Web Team - Owned and cross trained multiple engineers on different services and solved complex technical challenges for the team. Advocated for and ensured product parity between web and mobile feature launches. - Backend - Piloted and successfully cross trained mobile developers on how to develop on go backend services which expanded the teams skill sets and grew junior developer skills.

Uber Airports Driver Team- Built innovative features for Uber Drivers experiences at the Airport- Owned and maintained the driver app feature for airport experiences- Lead cross organizational initiatives to rewrite Uber Reserve driver UIs and align stakeholders on building reusable backend configurable UIs - Led tech debt initiatives that impacted all android developers- Partnered closely with platform teams to build new features in reusable extensible ways- Mentored multiple junior engineers - Conducted interviews for Web, mobile and backend roles across Uber

Uber Maps Places Team March- Built and owned multiple web apps used across the maps team. - Primarily built and expanded Uber Maps Places and business location tooling.- Mentored numerous engineers and interns. - Built advanced map based visualizations to show human operators complex map data to verify “ground truth” information- Active member of the web guild and partnered with web platform teams to improve web developer experience across Uber- Conducted interviews for Web and backend

Uber Maps Data Quality Team- Founding member of Uber Maps that led and mentored the web developers on the team. - Built and launched the first Uber web apps for the India office which leveraged thousands of human operators in India to measure subjective map quality metrics for curating map data.- Led projects and investigations that required building data pipelines that spanned every part of map creation from raw data ingestion to map tile generation and theme and even routing and navigation- Partnered closely with design to build intuitive UIs that displayed thousands of metrics and tools that showed highly varied data including navigation, routes and multiple layers of the map stack.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Engineer on the Bing Maps Map Data Quality that spearheaded defining and measure map quality metrics that required human input. This also involved defining processes and workflows to accurately measure difficult to measure aspects of maps.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Windows Phone Cortana Engineer that ensured high quality product experiences

Reno, Nv

* Fully functional game prototypes* Rapid iteration on novel game concepts* Support game design team

* Game development Stepper and AVP

Reno, Nevada Area

* Game development i960 and Stepper

Reno, Nevada

* Quotes* Circuit board assembly* Manufacturing line operator* Quality inspection* Assistant network administrator

Reno, Nevada Area

* IT help desk* Asset inventory* Troubleshoot and repair PCs and printers* Data center support

Bs, Computer Engineering

International Study Abroad, Japanese Language And Culture

* Exchange program * Japanese language courses * Japanese culture and history courses