Hey, I'm Shahed 👋

The work

Right now I'm a Software Engineer at Uber (via Accenture), building Bliss-NXT — an internal support platform used by 30+ global teams. I own features end-to-end: from understanding the problem to shipping the fix. That means navigating Apollo GraphQL caching quirks just as much as writing clean TypeScript components that other engineers actually enjoy reading.

Before that, I spent 2.5 years at BeyondScale Technologies shipping things that actually mattered to real people — government portals that millions of citizens in Andhra Pradesh used every day, a fintech backend, US real estate data pipelines, a file management system. The stack changed constantly. The discipline didn't.

How I think

I compete on Codeforces, grind LeetCode, and genuinely enjoy the part where a problem seems impossible until it isn't. That mindset bleeds into everything I build — I'll sit with a hard bug longer than I should because I'd rather understand it than patch it.

I believe good software is mostly about understanding the problem deeply, not picking the right framework. I've been wrong about this enough times in the right direction to be sure of it.

What I'm looking for

A team where the work matters, ownership is real, and the bar is high enough that it forces you to grow. Frontend, full-stack, or anything in between — I care more about the problem than the title.

If you're building something serious and want someone who ships with care, here's my cover letter — a more honest version of what I'd say in a first call.

Outside work

Working toward Candidate Master on Codeforces. Writing about DSA, system design, and the occasional thing I had to learn the hard way. Building this site as a slow, deliberate project — more garden than portfolio.