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Zaid Shaikh // Mumbai, India

Zaid Shaikh.
Building Reliable Infrastructure & Software.

Software developer & DevOps engineer based in Mumbai, India. I architect resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS, automate containerized CI/CD pipelines, and engineer high-throughput distributed backends. Focused on building production-grade systems, offline edge intelligence, and autonomous Agentic AI.

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4 Systems BUILT & DEPLOYED
100% CONTAINER WORKFLOWS
Mumbai BASED IN INDIA
ZAID SHAIKH

TECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS

Core Engineering Stack

ZAID SHAIKH✦ AWS CLOUD✦ DOCKER CONTAINERS✦ KUBERNETES✦ LINUX SYSTEMS✦ PYTHON 3✦ GIT & GITHUB✦ FASTAPI✦ AGENTIC AI✦ HERMES 3✦ ZAID SHAIKH✦ AWS CLOUD✦ DOCKER CONTAINERS✦ KUBERNETES✦ LINUX SYSTEMS✦ PYTHON 3✦ GIT & GITHUB✦ FASTAPI✦ AGENTIC AI✦ HERMES 3✦
YOLOV8 COMPUTER VISION★ COMPUTER NETWORKS★ POSTGRESQL★ REDIS★ BASH SCRIPTING★ RESTFUL APIS★ CI/CD PIPELINES★ TESSERACT OCR★ OFFLINE EDGE AI★ YOLOV8 COMPUTER VISION★ COMPUTER NETWORKS★ POSTGRESQL★ REDIS★ BASH SCRIPTING★ RESTFUL APIS★ CI/CD PIPELINES★ TESSERACT OCR★ OFFLINE EDGE AI★
FEATURED PROJECTS

Projects & Applications

Practical software systems built with attention to performance, offline edge usability, and real-world utility.

Agentic AI
Restaurant AI
Telegram Bot · Hermes 3 70B
  • Multi-turn dialogues & order intake
  • Real-time Google Sheets API sync
  • Conversational context retention
  • Automated webhook retry logic
  • Serverless edge deployment
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Assistive Tech
BlindAssist
Java · YOLOv8 · Android App
  • 100% offline — zero cloud latency
  • Real-time YOLOv8 obstacle alerts
  • Tesseract OCR text-to-speech reader
  • Instant Indian Rupee note recognition
  • Spatial audio navigation guidance
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Computer Vision
Currency AI
PyTorch · OpenCV · MobileNetV3
  • 99.2% classification accuracy
  • Sub-15ms inference latency per frame
  • MobileNet architecture for mobile
  • Classifies all denominations (₹10–₹500)
  • Invariant to folds, creases & shadows
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Distributed Audio
Melody
Kotlin · Media3 · Node.js · AWS
  • Private multi-user Android streaming app
  • Self-hosted Node.js / TypeScript REST API on AWS
  • Weighted Smart Shuffle recommendation engine
  • Encrypted offline-first downloads & caching
  • Background audio playback with Media3
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SKILLS & TOOLS

Technical Capabilities

Technologies and concepts I work with regularly across cloud infrastructure and software engineering.

Cloud & DevOps

Container isolation, deployment automation, and scalable cloud management.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS EC2 & VPC Identity & Access Mgmt (IAM) Docker & Containers Kubernetes Git / GitHub CI/CD Linux (Ubuntu / Debian)

Software Engineering

Writing clean, maintainable backend code and asynchronous APIs.

Python Kotlin & Jetpack Compose Node.js & TypeScript C Programming C++ (Algorithms & DP) HTML, CSS & JavaScript RESTful APIs & Microservices

AI, ML & Automation

Practical machine learning, edge model inference, and LLM integrations.

Large Language Models (LLM) Generative & Agentic AI Tokenization & Finetuning TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) YOLOv8 & OpenCV ML Kit OCR PyTorch

Networks & Infrastructure

Network architecture, secure communications, and server administration.

Computer Network Architecture LAN / WAN Topologies DNS Resolution & Routing IPv4 & IPv6 Protocols Subnetting & Firewalls Reverse Proxy & SSL/TLS Bash Automation