resume = {
    "contact": {
        "name": "Sheikh Huzaif",
        "email": "sheikhhuzaif007@gmail.com",
        "phone": "+91 9797975105",
        "linkedin": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/sheikhhuzaif",
        "github": "https://github.com/sheikhhuzaif"
    },
    "summary": (
        "Backend-focused software engineer with ~4 years of professional experience building "
        "high-performance APIs, scalable distributed systems, and developer workflows. "
        "Strong in Python, Java, Typescript and cloud-native tooling (AWS). "
        "Proven track record of improving system performance, "
        "migrating APIs and optimising background workloads, and owning CI/CD and test automation to "
        "speed safe delivery. Seeking backend / platform roles where I can drive reliability, "
        "developer productivity and measurable product impact."
    ),
    "jobs": [
        {
            "company": "Coda",
            "location": "Remote",
            "tenure": "July 2024 - Present",
            "role": "Senior Software Engineer",
            "highlights": [
                "Optimized core gRPC service performance, reducing p99 response time by 96% (500ms → <20ms), improving system responsiveness and user experience.",
                "Engineered robust CI/CD pipelines with integrated automated testing, accelerating deployment cycles and reducing post-release issues.",
                "Led feature development for EA FC Mobile & Ubisoft R6 Mobile webstores launch — delivered ~10 critical features while actively reducing technical debt.",
                "Executed code cleanup and refactoring initiatives that improved readability and maintainability (measurable reduction in complexity and review time).",
                "Pioneered Code Review improvement sessions to help developers improve in providing and working on code reviews.",
                "Created foundational architecture for AWS Batch service, successfully migrating several critical tasks while establishing the framework to support future migration of hunders of cron jobs and schedulers with customized Quarkus implementation."
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "CodaPayments",
            "location": "Remote",
            "tenure": "August 2022 - June 2024",
            "role": "Software Engineer",
            "highlights": [
                "Delivered architectural refinements to critical APIs achieving up to 10x performance improvements for key endpoints.",
                "Led cross-functional initiatives including authentication migrations and SSO integration to improve security and onboarding.",
                "Built scalable admin dashboards and implemented strategic third-party integrations to extend product capabilities.",
                "Promoted code quality through testing frameworks, CI/CD best practices and automated checks.",
                "Partnered with product and analytics teams on pricing-display experiments that positively impacted purchase value and revenue metrics."
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "PAL",
            "location": "Remote",
            "tenure": "July 2021 - July 2022",
            "role": "Back End Developer",
            "highlights": [
                "Architected migration from REST to GraphQL, reducing API calls by ~50% and simplifying client-server interactions.",
                "Built a dynamic form-generation framework enabling administrators to create DB-backed forms without manual schema changes.",
                "Implemented high-performance search using Elasticsearch with Haystack integration to optimize query relevance and latency."
            ]
        }
    ],
    "projects": [
        {
            "name": "Terminal Resume",
            "tenure": "November 2025",
            "role": "Python Developer",
            "highlights": [
                "Interactive CLI application that displays professional resume in a beautifully formatted terminal interface.",
                "Built with Typer framework and Rich library for elegant terminal output with tables, panels, and colors.",
                "Implemented comprehensive test suite with 40 tests achieving 93% code coverage.",
                "Features modular command architecture for displaying work experience, projects, skills, education, and contact info.",
                "Developed with AI assistance (Claude Code) for rapid prototyping, test generation, and code optimization.",
                "Tech: Python, Typer, Rich, Pytest"
            ],
            "link": "https://github.com/sheikhhuzaif/terminal-resume"
        },
        {
            "name": "SneakerGuide",
            "tenure": "May 2020 - June 2020",
            "role": "Android Developer",
            "highlights": [
                "Android app providing real-time sneaker news and release calendar for enthusiasts.",
                "Built custom feed interface, release calendar and shopping guide",
                "Tech: Java, Android SDK"
            ],
            "link": "https://github.com/sheikhhuzaif/SneakerNews1"
        },
        {
            "name": "Prtfolios",
            "tenure": "April 2021 - May 2021",
            "role": "Full-stack Engineer",
            "highlights": [
                "Django web app that lets users create professional portfolios without coding.",
                "Designed template selection, customizable fields, responsive layouts and secure auth."
            ],
            "link": "https://github.com/sheikhhuzaif/portfolio_app"
        }
    ],
    "education": [
        {
            "degree": "Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering)",
            "institution": "Amity University, Noida",
            "tenure": "August 2018 - June 2022",
            "notes": "CGPA: 9.05"
        }
    ],
    "skills": {
        "programming_languages": [
            "Python", "Java", "Typescript", "JavaScript"
        ],
        "backend_frameworks_and_tools": [
            "Django", "FastAPI", "Spring Boot", "Quarkus", "Node.js"
        ],
        "api_technologies": [
            "GraphQL", "REST", "gRPC"
        ],
        "datastores_and_search": [
            "Postgres/SQL", "NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra)", "Redis", "Elasticsearch"
        ],
        "cloud_and_infrastructure": [
            "AWS (Batch, EC2, S3, IAM)", "CI/CD (Jenkins, TeamCity)", "Docker"
        ],
        "streaming_and_messaging": [
            "Kafka"
        ],
        "testing_and_automation": [
            "Unit & integration testing", "Automated test pipelines", "Puppeteer"
        ],
        "data_processing_and_libs": [
            "Pandas"
        ],
        "dev_experience_and_others": [
            "Performance tuning", "Observability & monitoring (recommended: Prometheus/Grafana)", "Designing background workers & schedulers",
            "Code reviews, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration"
        ]
    },
    "links": {
        "linkedin": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/sheikh-huzaif-930a67203",
        "email": "sheikhhuzaif007@gmail.com",
        "github_sneaker": "https://github.com/sheikhhuzaif/SneakerNews1",
        "github_portfolio": "https://github.com/sheikhhuzaif/portfolio_app"
    }
}
