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Gehad Shaat

Senior Software Engineer

Washington, DC

Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building high-scale distributed systems and internal platforms for silicon validation and fleet management. Specialist in multi-tenant cloud architectures, agentic software development workflows and Silicon Validation tools. Proven track record at Amazon Web Services (S3) and Intel in building internal tools and platforms for engineers use.

Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

ClickUp

Apr 2025 Present

Leading backend initiatives for high-concurrency collaborative platform

  • Lead backend initiatives to scale relational data for a high-concurrency collaborative platform using PostgreSQL sharding and implemented tools and libraries to migrate existing non-sharded queries to use the new sharding paradigm
  • Engineered high-throughput services to maintain low-latency performance across global distributed systems
  • Improved system resilience and observability for core backend services used by millions of productivity users

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services (S3)

Apr 2021 Apr 2025

Architected and implemented multi-tenant platform for S3's global fleet management

  • Architected and implemented a Multi-Tenant Platform to provide foundational primitives for internal full-stack applications to manage S3's vast fleet across the world
  • Designed and deployed distributed GraphQL APIs with custom monitoring, handling massive scale within the S3 ecosystem
  • Developed fine-grained Authentication and Authorization (RBAC/ABAC) strategies to secure platform's use with zero-trust
  • Built zero-touch deployment workflows to automate global infrastructure expansion across new regions including air-gapped regions

Senior Solution Architect

Hitachi Vantara

Nov 2019 Apr 2021

Designed and deployed AWS-based cloud architectures for enterprise clients

  • Designed and deployed AWS-based cloud architectures for enterprise clients, focusing on reliability and cost-efficiency
  • Modernized legacy applications by refactoring Angular/Node.js stacks and optimizing AWS service integrations

Software Engineer

Intel

May 2014 Nov 2019

Built high-performance automation and data collection tools for silicon validation

  • Lead the design, implementation, testing and validation of development of new Automation and Data Collection tools
  • Developed multi-dimensional characterization (Shmoo) Tool for Validation Engineers to use in silicon debug. The tool offered multi-dimensions across timing, voltage temperature and register values
  • Develop Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline to test, build & deploy code on different virtual tester platforms
  • Integrate ElasticSearch to enable Real-time Utilization tracking & Error monitoring for all tools within the team

Education

Portland State University

M.S. in Computer Engineering

Portland State University

B.S. in Computer Engineering

Skills

Programming Languages

TypeScript
Node.js
Python
C++
C#
Java
GraphQL
SQL

Databases & Storage

PostgreSQL
Redis
DynamoDB
ElasticSearch
AWS S3

Infrastructure & DevOps

AWS Lambda
API Gateway
CDK
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD Pipelines

Systems & Architectures

Distributed Systems
Serverless
Multi-tenant Platforms
Real-time APIs
Auth/SSO

Certifications

AWS Certified Solution Architect

Amazon Web Services

Jan 2016

Projects

ClawdUp

Agentic Developer Tooling: Built an automated continuous "ClickUp Task to PR" pipeline using Node.js and Claude Code to automate code implementation from ClickUp task descriptions.

WavyCloud

Built a 100% serverless communication platform using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB that enables businesses to provision phone numbers. Integrated Stripe API for secure subscription management and automated billing.

Pyboto3

Developed a Pythonic assistant for AWS Boto3 that provides type-hinting and autocomplete for all AWS services (~100 stars on GitHub).

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