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After escaping medical school, then teaching myself Japanese and software engineering, and then working at a Japanese software company, I can confidently say I love programming and I can teach myself just about anything!

I am now a DevOps Engineer with 4 years of professional experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructure solutions. I am adept at automating processes, optimizing system performance, and ensuring high availability of applications.

I am also a results-driven leader with years of experience in talent planning, team coordination, coaching and development, and adapting to dynamic startup environments. Experiences across a diversity of fields has made me a unique and well-rounded candidate. I am committed to always improving myself and my work environment.

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50+

Projects
Completed

Years of
experience

50+

Happy
Clients

1000+

Code
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My Skills

Python

95%

Java

75%

80%

Powershell

80%

AWS

90%

GCP

80%

HTML5

85%

CSS3

85%

My Timeline

2022 - present

DevOps Engineer - Santoku Corporation

Proactively identified inefficiencies in IT resources and conducted proof‑of‑concepts for cost‑effective cloud solutions.

Re‑architected monolithic application into micro‑services to increase up‑time and efficiency in the cloud.

Utilized AWS Lambda to automate IT tasks such as server health‑checks, and create automated SNS alerts.

Conducted regular security audits and implemented security best practices using AWS IAM to ensure compliance with industry standards.

2019 - 2022

Software Engineer - Santoku Corporation

Planned, researched, and created haptic VR system prototypes.

Refactored legacy code to use object‑oriented programming.

Trained clients on how to setup and operate Haptic VR training programs.

2018 - 2019

English Language Teacher - Japan Exchange Teaching Program

English Language teacher to 1000+ elementary students and 500+ middle school students.

Awarded Kizuna Ambassador Award for excellence in teaching.

2014 - 2018

Hospital Volunteer - Credit Valley Hospital

Patient facing volunteer in unit 1D Physiotherapy, and unit 2A Pediatrics

2014 - 2018

Science Degree - McMaster University

Bachelors in Honours Kinesiology (B.H.Sc.) with a final GPA of 3.85/4.00.

2010 - 2014

Highschool Diploma - St. Francis Xavier Secondary School

Graduated with Specialist High Skills Major (S.H.S.M.) in Health and Wellness.

My Portfolio and CertificationsMy Work

Here is some of my certifications and work that I've done in various programming languages.

Portfolio Website

Google Drive Clone

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

GCP Professional Cloud Architect

LeetCode

TEFL Teaching Certification

Japanese Language Proficiency Level N2

French Certification

My Books and BlogsBooks and Blogs

Here are some relevant textbooks and blogs I've read over the years.

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of cleaning up code—of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. The third part is the payoff: a list of heuristics and “smells” gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think when we write, read, and clean code.

Effective Java

Each chapter consists of several “items” presented in the form of a short, standalone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and updated code examples. The comprehensive descriptions and explanations for each item illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why.

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

Robert C. Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship. This book is packed with practical advice–about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than than it is about attitude.

Core Java

This book is the definitive guide to writing robust, maintainable code in any version of Java up to V17. The book offers in-depth coverage of fundamental Java programming, including object-oriented programming, generics, collections, lambda expressions, concurrency, and functional programming.

GCP Cloud Architect Course

A Cloud Architect designs, develops, and manages robust, secure, scalable, and dynamic solutions. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Architect role.

AWS Solutions Architect Course

This Learning Path helps you build knowledge on how to design applications and large distributed systems on AWS. This Learning Path presents domain-specific content and includes courses and knowledge checks to prepare you for the AWS Solutions Architect Certification Exam. This path is a guide and presents learning in a structured order.

Fluent Python

This book teaches how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas. The book guides you through idiomatic Python 3 features, Python's core language features, libraries, and teaches you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable.

Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python

Sweigart takes you through best practices for setting up your development environment, naming variables, and improving readability, then tackles documentation, organization and performance measurement, as well as object-oriented design. This book also goes over using the command line and other professional tools like code formatters, type checkers, linters, and version control.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand. Once you've mastered the basics of Python, you'll create programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation.

Microsoft Learn: Powershell Automation

This course provides fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. MS Learn is also a great resource to learn Coding languages such as GoLang.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

This book examines the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Difficult issues are explored such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, the book explores a variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers.

Contact MeContact

Contact me here

If you have any additional questions, or would like to talk about a project, feel free to contact me using any of the following channels!

Location

: Toronto, Canada

: shaikhfh1@gmail.com

Mobile Number

: +1 (437) 267-3291

Education

: McMaster University, Hamilton

Languages

: English, Japanese, Bengali, French, Mandarin