About

Wajahat Siddiqui is an award-winning Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in all phases of software product life cycle and product commercialization. He is currently working as an SDE-III at Groupon, where he is building next-generation high-impact available and scalable infrastructure for deals and merchandising platform using Ruby on Rails, Java with Dropwizard, and machine learning regression algorithms. Wajahat has expertise in building scalable systems using open standard architectures patterns and has experience in developing high-quality software products and solutions in Web, Services, Android, and Linux mobile (LiMo) platforms. He has worked on developing a bIoT platform and Internet for Samsung Galaxy in Android Play Store and commercialization since Android 4.1.x JB API 16 from ver1.0 to ver5.0. Wajahat is a Chromium and WebKit open-source contributor and has contributed to Android applications in GitHub. He has strong competencies and hands-on experience in problem-solving with data-structures, algorithms, design patterns, OOAD, and software design optimized for mobile devices. Wajahat has experience in Agile software development (Scrum, Kanban), OO modeling, documentation, concept analysis, design, development, technical reviews, code optimizations, and testing. He has mentored and trained junior engineers on technical issues and is a competitive programmer on HackerRank. Wajahat's technical skills include Microservice architecture patterns, mobile platforms LiMo & Android, development & application of algorithms, design patterns, OOD & scalable design, strong problem resolution skills, performance & memory optimizations, open-source contributions & standards, software testing, CI & CD pipelines, data modeling & structuring, and building PoC for ideas and patents. Wajahat has worked as a Chief Engineer (IoT Server Platform Java Springboot Developer) at Samsung, where he developed a smart building (b.IoT) server platform using technologies such as spring boot framework, Netflix OSS stack (Eureka, Hystrix, Feing, Config service), Java 8, RDBMS, Embedded DB, WebServers, ORM, Spock Testing framework, Lombok Annotations, AMQP, Swagger UI for Docs, and Docker. He has also worked as a Technical Lead (Android/Java Development) at Samsung, where he developed differentiated features for Samsung Internet for Android and contributed around ~20+ patches in the Chromium open-source project.