Resume

Basics

Name Arafat Khan
Email arafat.da.khan@gmail.com
Phone +1-343-999-5219
Url https://arafatkatze.github.io/
Summary A backend engineer who does a little bit of everything.

Work

  • 2024 - Present
    AI Engineer
    AI Engineer at Strategy Team
    • Building the best AI tooling for programmers that world will ever see
  • 2023 - 2023
    Founder
    ImmigrantFirst
    • Built a state of the Art LLM framework to build O1 Visa applications for US immigration using Generative AI.
  • 2021 - 2023
    Infrastructure Engineer
    Shopify
    Restricted Infrastructure and Stacks Team
    • Co-Implemented a load balancerlevel splitting ofread and write requests using Kubernetes for Shopify’s financial transaction application which improved the p99 request times across most of Shopify’s payment transactions by 50%.
    • Enhanced networking/infra pipeline to make our payments infrastructure fully compliant with PCI/DSS regulations to pass the audit.
    • Built, maintained and upgraded highly scalable, fault tolerant Mysql database for critical credit card data
  • 2019 - 2021
    Backend Engineer
    Shopify
    Risk Engineering Team
    • Built a majortech design for a technical pipeline touching multiple rails services to find major bottlenecks in Shopify’s fraud assessment flow and to improve the checkout latency by 60%.
    • Managed autoscaling for Black Friday sales as the traffic spiked 10x the normal limit
  • 2017 - 2018
    Researcher
    Simon Fraser University
    • Applied ML techniques on CT Scans of Body segements for FAT analysis and body composition labelling for cancer patients

Education

  • 2014 - 2019
    Bachelors and Masters in Technology
    Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    • Probability
    • Algorithms
    • Programming Languages
    • Introduction to Electronics
    • Stochastic Processes
    • Machine Learning
    • Operating Systems
    • Distributed Systems

Awards

  • 2018
    Google Summer of Code
    Scientific Ruby Foundation
    Built the best plotting library for Ruby to support visulations for Science expermentation in Ruby -> https://github.com/SciRuby/rubyplot
  • 2016
    Ruby Grant
    Ruby Association
    Official Grant from Ruby Association to build Tensorflow in Ruby -> https://github.com/somaticio/tensorflow.rb

Languages

Hindi
Native speaker
English
Native speaker
Urdu
Native speaker

Speaking

DevopsDays Recife
2022
Talked about how to be a digital nomad as a tech worker
Google Developers Windsor
2020
Presented Tensorflow Ruby in the context of Google
Gophercon India
2019
Presented Data and Algorithm visualizations in Golang at the largest Golang conference in India
GowayFest Belarus
2018
Presented visualizations in Golang at GowayFest Belarus
Ruby on Ice, Tegernsee, Germany
2018
Presented a 3 hour workshop on Machine learning and Tensorflow in Ruby
Euroko Ruby Conference
2017
Presented as the youngest speaker at European Ruby Conference: the largest ruby conference in Europe
500+ Attendees
This was the first time I introduced Tensorflow Ruby to the world

Projects

  • Tensorflow.rb
    I wrote Tensorflow for Ruby
    • Spoke about this project at many tech conferences all over Europe and North America
    • Project was eventually endorsed by Ruby Association
    • Project trended on Github for a few days
  • Dataviz
    A perfect algorithms explaination library written in Golang
    • Designed a user-friendly codebase to understand complex algorithms visually
    • Presented my work at Gophercon in Belarus and India
  • Glot
    A plotting library in Golang built on top of GNU Plot
    • Added golang support for styles like lines, points, bars, steps, histogram, circle
    • Presented my work at Gophercon in Belarus and India