Haseeb Majid

Work History

Curve

11.2022 - Current

Promoted twice from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer and then Tech Lead.
Took ownership over the auth domain, which had no owner. This involved documenting how it worked, fixing bugs and improving the flow to reduce the number of scammers.
Build (micro) services in Go, integrating with Kafka, Postgres and Mongo. Deploying using Docker and on Kubernetes.
Helped improve and support queries on CI/CD pipelines, worked on an initiative to help speed up the pipelines by approximately 33%. Alongside this answering any queries engineers had about the pipelines.
Owned all of the libraries that were used by multiple engineer teams and most of the external integrations such as Postgres, Mongo and Kafka. Worked on an initiative to simplify all the libraries and help reduce dependencies to simplify the upgrade process for engineers.
Worked on improving ways of working, introduced a regular retrospective to the platform engineering department. Helped to manage the sprint and stands ups where needed as well.

ZOE

03.2021 - Current

Developed (micro-services) web services using FastAPI, SQLAlchlemy (Postgres), and Docker and deployed them onto Kubernetes
Built tools used by internal teams
Lead the DevEx initiatives for the engineering department
Working on service consistency
Making it easier for developers to jump between different microservices
Developed & maintained multiple libraries to abstract away common code
Including one for managing pub/sub events and one for common FastAPI code
Worked on creating a repository for best practices and common patterns for other engineers to use across the department
Helped automate manual processes
Reducing support tickets done by my team from ~100 per week to ~5 per week
Speed up CI pipeline runtime by 30%, by slimming down Docker images
Improved tooling for creating new microservices from needing about 5 steps to 2 steps
Saving about 1 hour needed to create a new service
Helped scale kits sold per week by 600% in 6 months

Sky

04.2018 - 03.2021

Developed & deployed the consumer DNS platform for a brand new region, for over 1 million customers
Recreated from scratch a refactored and improved DNS platform for the UK, impacting over 6 million customers
Making it much easier for new engineers to make changes in the future
Improved scripts to automate jobs using CI
Such as publishing OpenAPI specifications to Wiki
Created a proof of concept for encrypted DNS, DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS
To better protect the privacy of our customers
Developed a Flask application which provides Web APIs for provisioning customers on the brand new Sky Business platform
Developed critical Web APIs to make sure Sky is compliant with OFCOM regulation

euNetworks

06.2016 - 04.2018

Developed a RESTful API to automatically provision customers on network devices, using Python
Interacting with cloud vendor APIs such as AWS and GCP
To connect customers directly to these cloud providers using L2 connectivity
Created an inventory reconciliation tool which would compare network elements against those in Salesforce
Providing an accurate view of the state of the live network

Lloyds Banking Group

07.2015 - 09.2015

Built a framework, colleagues could use to create graph animations to demonstrate infrastructure components
Which could be easily shared
Automated generation of spreadsheets using C#
Saving around 1 business day for a colleague

Lloyds Banking Group

07.2014 - 09.2014

Developed a tool to automate the generation of a spreadsheet showing permissions for different parts of an application
Saving about 21 business hours every time the spreadsheet needed to be generated
Helped to simplify CSS reducing the size by ~60%
Leading to application loading ~20 seconds quicker