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Huzaifah Simjee

Santa Clara, CA 95051

huzaifahsimjee@gmail.comhuzaifahsimjee.comgithub.com/simjeehlinkedin.com/in/simjeeh

Education

University of California, Riverside - Bachelors of Science, Computer Science - June 2020

Professional Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer, Nvidia - Santa Clara, CA

Aug 2024 - Current

  • Own infrastructure strategy and delivery for the GPU-Health product. Lead the team to deliver highly available, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Lead design and operation of infrastructure CI/CD. Built terraform stacks, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines, supporting smooth onboarding and upgrades for internal and enterprise customers
  • Manage reliable and scalable multi-cluster Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure using ArgoCD

Software Development Engineer, Amazon - Santa Monica, CA

Nov 2022 - Aug 2024

  • Worked on key features to optimize data intake and processing for Measurement and Advertising
  • Maintained and created key features for highly scalable distributed systems managing petabytes of data while processing millions of requests per minute
  • Developed big data and search solutions for sellers on and off the Amazon platform to track KPIs like conversion rates, total ad impact, and more

Software Engineer, Shoreline Software - Redwood City, CA

June 2019 - Oct 2022

  • Managed customer demos demonstrating Shoreline end-to-end including a full-stack demo app that shows product comparisons to customers
  • Developed a tool for customers who want to self host the Shoreline backend, which deploys backend and agent AWS infrastructure using Terraform and configures created EKS clusters using Helm
  • Found and learned AWS similar resources in GCP and Azure such as EKS, GKE, and AKS (for kubernetes) and EC2 ASG, MIGs, and VMSS (for vms) to add support for multi-cloud agent setups
  • Created Shoreline Eagle, a full-stack internal app used for reserving and scaling pre-configured Kubernetes cluster and virtual machine test environments in AWS to save on cloud infrastructure costs
  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines to test code, build essential docker images, packages software for x86/ARM on Ubuntu/CentOS, and Sign and Notarize our custom CLI for MacOS install
  • Made a multi-language interop layer using a client-server framework to manipulate server and operational metrics, decreasing metric compression time by 98.4%

Projects

Foster

  • Built a full-stack web app as a tool to explore and compare company offices and perks

Cutie Hack Annual 12 hour hackathon - Riverside, CA

2017

  • May - Won Best Beginner Hack for fabricating game concepts and creating a text-based adventure game
  • November - Created wearables that provide tactile feedback as visually impaired users approach objects

Rshell

  • Used APIs, system calls, and data structures to create a shell program inspired by Bash
  • Developed support for commands, nested parentheses and quotations, and file redirection

Skills

Programming

JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsReactJavaC++CSSTailwind CSSHTMLPythonCBashGoElixirErlangjUnitMockitoAutomationScripting

Software development practices and infrastructure

Test-driven developmentDockerDockerHubKubernetesHelmArtifactHubArgoCDSpinnakerJenkinsChromiumPuppeteergRPCProtocol BuffersTerraformCDKTFFluentdKibanaSlackMultiarch package buildsGitLabGitHub ActionsVaultConsulApple Sign and Notarize

AWS

DynamoDBRedshiftAuroraS3CloudFormationEC2Auto ScalingEBSLambdaAPI GatewayCloudWatchCognitoEKSSESSNSKinesisMSKEMRAthenaVPCEventBridgeECSCodeBuildCodeCommitCodeDeployCodePipelineAmplifyCloudTrailSystems ManagerCloudFrontRoute53ELBIAMACMKMSCLI