About

Abdul Haleem Sheikh is a highly experienced Lead Software Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at Thumbtack, where he leads engineering efforts and builds distributed backend systems that power the company's data platform services and infrastructure. His focus is on reliability, scalability, and performance at tremendous scale, with over 95,000 active customers. Before joining Thumbtack, Abdul worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Box, where he was part of the data ingestion/messaging platform that enabled batch computations in the cloud on premise data sources. He implemented a k8 service using Akka-Streams to ingest data in AWS to Box's on-premise data center. He also worked on the Notification service to provide notifications and enhance the capabilities of the existing Java Spring-based services to support new use cases and replace the legacy notification systems in Scala & PHP. Abdul has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer - Connected Fitness Foundation Services at MyFitnessPal, where he led and managed an engagement platform for delivering user and marketing messages (email / sms / {push, inbox} notifications) to 150Million+ users with reliability, analytics, and request lifecycle tracking regardless of application or device. He also worked on a cross-team engineering effort in developing a social feed with hashtags for the UACF platform. Abdul has a Master's degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from MJCET/Osmania University. He has expertise in a wide range of languages, tools, and methodologies, including Scala, Java, Akka, Spring, Spray, Kafka, Docker, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Route53, MySQL, Redis, Jenkins, Git, Kubernetes, Kibana, Lightstep, Sendgrid, ElasticSearch, GetStream.io, and more. Abdul is passionate about solving challenging engineering problems at scale, building distributed backend systems, RESTful service-oriented architecture, and leading engineering efforts across the organization. He is a skilled Software Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality results and driving innovation.