Junaid B.

Backend Developer

Junaid is a seasoned backend developer with over eight years of experience, specializing in Golang. His deep expertise enables him to build efficient, scalable, and robust high-performing systems.

Known for his collaborative approach, Junaid excels in product development and mentoring junior developers. His ability to work effectively within teams enhances project outcomes and fosters a productive work environment, as in his previous company, Careem, which is now purchased by Uber.

Junaid's work with Proxify clients underscores his capacity to deliver exceptional results, consistently receiving positive feedback for his contributions.

Main expertise
  • Postman
    Postman 4 years
  • JSON
    JSON 6 years
  • JUnit
    JUnit 3 years
Other skills
  • Jira
    Jira 4 years
  • Grafana
    Grafana 3 years
  • MongoDB
    MongoDB 3 years
Junaid
Junaid B.

Pakistan

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Employment

  • Senior Golang Engineer | Tech Lead

    Securiti.ai - 5 years

    • Spearheaded backend development using Golang, proficiently creating microservices and facilitating seamless communication among diverse microservices.
    • Adept at comprehending and implementing third-party documentation, showcasing a high level of proficiency in integrations, and utilizing Goroutines and channels for concurrent data processing.
    • Wrote a microservice in Java for connecting different databases, with all connections to that service handled through gRPC.
    • Implements system health monitoring through Golang, ensuring optimal multithreading levels for sustained performance.
    • Leverages Golang to mount NFS and SMB directories, streamlining the fetching of directory files.
    • Employs gRPC for effective communication with other microservices and utilizes socket programming to interact with specific services.
    • Builds and maintains automated testing frameworks to ensure code quality and reliability and implements CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and delivery processes.
    • Adheres to Agile/Scrum methodologies for efficient project management, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • Postman Postman
    • JSON JSON
    • GraphQL GraphQL
    • ElasticSearch ElasticSearch
    • BigQuery BigQuery
    • API
    • Agile Agile
    • Jira Jira
    • Grafana Grafana
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • Unit Testing
    • MariaDB MariaDB
    • Load testing
    • Salesforce Salesforce
    • Scrum Scrum
    • Gorm Gorm
    • OAuth2 OAuth2
    • MongoDB MongoDB
    • Team leading
    • Docker Docker
    • Redis Redis
    • AWS AWS
    • gRPC gRPC
    • Git Git
    • Golang Golang
    • PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
    • Microservices
    • REST API REST API
  • Backend Developer

    Careem - 3 years 5 months

    • Plays a pivotal role in transforming a monolithic application into a distributed system of microservices for a ride-hailing service.
    • Leads the development and ownership of three key microservices, actively involved in the entire lifecycle - from coding and reviewing to deployment.
    • Implements a robust Blue-Green deployment strategy, ensuring seamless transitions and minimizing service disruptions.
    • Introduces the Spring Circuit Breaker pattern and integrates the Hystrix dashboard for monitoring Spring microservices, enhancing system resilience and reliability.
    • Integrates Prometheus and New Relic for comprehensive monitoring, enabling proactive issue identification and resolution.
    • Implements an API Gateway to streamline communication between microservices, enhancing overall system efficiency.
    • Successfully integrates third-party applications using SOAP/WSDL, ensuring seamless interoperability with external services.
    • Implements distributed logging using Kibana/EFK, improving visibility into system activities across the microservices architecture.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • Postman Postman
    • JSON JSON
    • JUnit JUnit
    • ElasticSearch ElasticSearch
    • API
    • Agile Agile
    • Terraform Terraform
    • Jira Jira
    • Unit Testing
    • Scrum Scrum
    • DynamoDB DynamoDB
    • MySQL MySQL
    • Docker Docker
    • AWS AWS
    • Git Git
    • Spring Boot Spring Boot
    • Spring Spring
    • Java Java
    • Microservices
    • REST API REST API

Education

  • BSc.Computer Science

    FAST National University · 2009 - 2013

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