Usman Shami Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Leading data and ML strategy for large scale financial products

Redmond, Wa, Us

Founder, #Let's Data (www.letsdata.io)---------------------------------------#Let’s Data simplifies data pipelines and eliminates infrastructure pains. Our promise: "Focus on the data, we'll manage the infrastructure".

Redmond, Washington, Us

* AuthN & AuthZ: Design, developed. maintained and owned libraries for Role-Based AccessControl and Just-In-Time elevated access. Included APIs, middleware & backend (~2.25 years)* API Performance & Latency: Architectural and code fixes that improved end to end API latencyby 30-50% (connection density, network path tuning, software upgrades) (~4 months)* API Framework Migration: Migrated the APIs to a newer API Framework, deprecating existing technology (~4 months)* Oncall Service Alert Reduction: Led the effort to identify, investigate and fix the on-call alerts for the broader team’s services. (~5 months)

Founder of Resonance (Lets Resonate) - a social music network for iOS devices. Resonance users share music with friends & personalize new music discovery from friends & family.* Led end to end software development - from the iOS App to the backend databases & everything in between. - NoSQL Datastores, Lambda function processing, Caching & API Gateways - iOS App UI development, API integration, User Management, Notifications etc - Web: Enable deep linking, Content sharing, previews, music playback widgets etc. - Instrumentation: Logging, Metrics, Alarms, User Analytics, Crash Reports etc. - Testing: Continuous running tests, comprehensive regression tests, test data generators, combinatorial & chaos tests - Operations: * Automated build, package & deployment * Continuously running tests (100 % API coverage) * Alerting* Designed & implemented features for user acquisition, activation & retention such as enhanced user onboarding, ad campaigns & analytics, email & push notifications, media & content generation pipelines etc.* Championed Authentication, Security & Privacy features - security audit reviews to harden the APIs / iOS Apps, auth deep dives for JWT, OAuth, Federation. Support auth profiles (Login/Anonymous)* Developed a number of proprietary algorithms & infrastructure such as: - JSON Text Compaction (Open sourced) - Recommendations Algorithms - Music Ranking Algorithms - Music Search & Matching AlgorithmsWebsite: https://www.letsresonate.net/ Blog: https://blog.letsresonate.net/Salient publications: * JSON Text Compactness: https://tinyurl.com/JsonTextCompactness * UI - Music Player Design: https://tinyurl.com/UI-MusicPlayerDesign * Music Share Player Widget: https://tinyurl.com/MusicPlayerWidgets * Immersive Search & Library: https://tinyurl.com/ImmersiveSeachAndLibrary * Onboarding UI Design: https://tinyurl.com/OnboardingUIDesign * Email & Push Notifications: https://tinyurl.com/PushNotificationScheduler

Seattle, Wa, Us

Senior Software Design Engineer, AWS DynamoDB ---------------------------------------------------Worked on design and development of internet scale, distributed cloud storage for the industry * Led the development to add JSON data types & rich expression support * Led the development of TimeToLive functionality in DynamoDB (U.S. Patents 11048685, 10592495, 10521449, 10445334, 10437809 and 10380090)

Seattle, Wa, Us

Software Design Engineer, Digital/Kindle Platform Web Services ----------------------------------------------------------------As a Tech Lead, championed Amazon Entity Reputation Platform at Amazon to enhance the customer experience for customers buying digital goods (Kindle books, MP3s, Amazon Instant Video etc.) at Amazon * Presented a data driven technical proposal to get management’s buyoff, end to end design, development, integration and delivery of the system components. * Savings from the system were in-line with the projections with low false negative ratesLed cross team design reviews across the organization to push quality upstream and grow junior engineers

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software Design Engineer 2, Windows Live Platform Services -------------------------------------------------------------Championed the anti-spam space to design and implement innovative technology algorithms to fight Microsoft’s battle against online spam for services such as Hotmail, Messenger etc. Co-invented technology solutions to fight spam which were patented (see Patents section). Some additional salient projects are as follows:* A dynamic framework to generate random CAPTCHAs using different algorithms & configurations (U.S. Patent 8812668 & 8239465)* Designed and implemented a framework for calculating and consuming IP Reputation to fight spam* Designed and implemented a dynamic framework for assigning a reputation to Windows Live Users

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software Design Engineer in Test, Window Serviceability --------------------------------------------------------* Designed and implemented test plans for multiple Windows service packs, critical security vulnerabilities and customer hotfixes for Windows Shell components * Worked on developing tests for windows service packs, critical security vulnerabilities and customer hotfixes for Windows Shell components

Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Systems Engineering