About

Mukhtar Ahmed Sayyed is a Cloud Engineer with 7 years of experience in data pipelines, microservices, and front-end development using JavaScript frameworks. He has worked in various design and development roles for programs including the modernization of IKEA systems, HP DaaS, HP Fitstation, HP Eagle, Starbucks UAE, TuturGroup, Coservit, etc. Mukhtar's skill set spans across cloud platforms, Golang, Java, Spring ecosystem (Core, boot, Webservices, Security, JPA), AWS, Docker and Kubernetes, Hibernate, oAuth2, and Cloud dataflow. Mukhtar is currently working as a Lead Engineer at Quest, where he is enabling digital transformation for IKEA. He has implemented data pipelines in batch/ streaming modes using Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Beam, worked on CI/CD, git repository setups (hooks, PR templates, etc), cloud build, and infrastructure as code using Terraform. Mukhtar has contributed to common modules of the architecture reused by multiple teams like logging and monitoring setup for pipelines, GCP components (Splunk enterprise/ stack driver), implementing a common data pipeline used across teams, and implemented SDKs for interaction with Vault. In the past, Mukhtar has worked as a Technical Lead and Senior Software Engineer at Quest. He has led teams responsible for the development of AWS-based microservices for HP DaaS, HP Eagle, and worked across geographically located teams to ensure delivery on time. Mukhtar has also contributed to the high-level design of backend and data transformation needs for assisting relationship managers of India's 3rd largest private sector bank. Mukhtar holds a Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) degree from Fergusson College and a Secondary School Certificate degree from Don Bosco High School. His key skills include implementing data pipelines using Apache Beam, cloud dataflow, scalable microservice design and development, event-driven architecture, REST API design/ development using Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Cloud, OAuth2 implementation using Spring security, and experience using event/ messaging platforms like Apache Kafka, PubSub, SNS/SQS. Mukhtar has also worked on technologies like WebSockets, WebRTC, Elasticsearch, and front-end development using JavaScript frameworks like React, HTML5, etc. He has experience working on programming languages/ frameworks like Golang, NodeJs. Overall, Mukhtar has 9.03 years of relevant experience.