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Gehad Shaat

Senior Software Engineer | Distributed Systems & Platform Architecture

Washington, DC

Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building high-scale distributed systems and internal platforms. Specialist in multi-tenant cloud architectures, agentic software development workflows and Silicon Validation tools. Proven track record at Amazon Web Services (S3) and ClickUp in optimizing system performance and reliability for millions of users. Passionate about democratizing software creation through AI-powered developer tools and collaborative platforms.

Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

ClickUp

Apr 2025Present

Leading backend initiatives for high-concurrency collaborative platform

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services (S3)

Apr 2021Apr 2025

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

Senior Solution Architect

Hitachi Vantara

Nov 2019Apr 2021

Designed and deployed AWS-based cloud architectures for enterprise clients

Software Engineer

Intel

May 2014Nov 2019

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

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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