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Full Stack Engineer • Team Lead • Product Thinker

I build resilient digital products and high-performance teams that deliver measurable outcomes.

Senior engineering professional with 14+ years across full stack development, cloud systems, data platforms, and microservices — currently building next-gen PostgreSQL observability at EnterpriseDB.

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About

Leadership with hands-on execution

I am a self-starter, continuous learner, and impact-oriented problem solver. My work blends product clarity, engineering depth, and delivery discipline to build scalable solutions from the ground up. I thrive at the intersection of technical architecture and team leadership — comfortable owning the roadmap, the architecture, and the sprint.

Strong track record of leading high-performance engineering teams across 14+ years.
Experience across platform products, cloud, data workflows, APIs, and microservices.
Comfortable owning architecture, execution, mentoring, and stakeholder alignment.
Active open-source contributor to the PostgreSQL ecosystem via pgAdmin4.
27+ professional certifications spanning cloud, AI, security, data, and agile.

Technical Skills

Full-stack depth across modern technology stacks

Core Languages

Python Go TypeScript JavaScript SQL Perl PL/SQL

Frontend

React HTML5 CSS3 TypeScript jQuery

Backend & APIs

Flask Node.js REST APIs Microservices API Design

Databases

PostgreSQL SQL Server Oracle Data Pipelines ETL Data Modelling

Cloud & DevOps

Microsoft Azure Docker OpenTelemetry CI/CD Observability OWASP Security

Process & Tooling

Agile / Scrum Jira Git Product Roadmapping OKRs Sprint Planning

Team Leadership

Building and scaling high-performance engineering teams

14+ years of growing from individual contributor to Staff-level engineering leader.

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Team Building

Hiring, onboarding, and growing cross-functional engineering teams. Creating environments where engineers thrive and ship with confidence.

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Technical Mentoring

Elevating junior and mid-level engineers through pair programming, design reviews, 1:1s, and structured knowledge-sharing sessions.

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Architecture & Design

Owning system design decisions for scalable platforms. Driving architectural evolution from legacy monoliths to modern microservices stacks.

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Stakeholder Alignment

Translating technical complexity into business language. Aligning engineering velocity with product goals and stakeholder expectations.

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Delivery Ownership

End-to-end ownership of sprint planning, release cycles, and quality gates. Sustaining momentum without sacrificing engineering quality.

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Cross-team Collaboration

Working across product, QA, DevOps, and customer success to align on priorities, unblock delivery, and reduce coordination overhead.

Work Experience

14 years of measurable engineering impact

Staff SDE — EnterpriseDB

PostgreSQL observability at enterprise scale

2023 – Present

Leading end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of the Next-Gen PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager) observability platform — a mission-critical monitoring product serving enterprise PostgreSQL deployments globally.
Driving cross-functional engineering delivery across three core technology stacks: TypeScript, React, and Go — ensuring alignment between product requirements, engineering execution, and QA sign-off gates.
Spearheading the integration of OpenTelemetry (OTEL) standards into PEM to enable modern distributed tracing, metrics collection, and structured logging for cloud and on-prem PostgreSQL environments.
Conducting regular architecture design reviews, setting engineering standards for API contracts, data modelling, and service boundaries across microservices.
Mentoring engineers at multiple levels — running structured 1:1s, pair programming sessions, and code review forums to build a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
Collaborating with product management to translate roadmap objectives into sprint-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria and technical trade-offs documented.
Championing observability-first development practices: alerting strategies, dashboard design, SLO definitions, and runbook documentation for production readiness.

TypeScriptReactGoOpenTelemetryPostgreSQLObservabilityMicroservices

Consultant — Miratech (BlackRock)

FinTech analytical platform for stock transaction error tracking

2022 – 2023

Engaged as a senior consultant to design and deliver a specialised analytical platform for stock transaction error tracking and reconciliation within BlackRock's internal operations infrastructure.
Architected a dual-engine processing workflow: a high-performance Go backend responsible for ingesting and processing large volumes of transaction records, paired with a Python-based validation and rule engine for error classification.
Built a unified internal tool that consolidated error visibility across multiple transaction pipelines, significantly reducing mean time to identify and escalate data issues.
Designed RESTful APIs for integration with upstream data feeds and downstream reporting dashboards, ensuring low-latency data availability for operations teams.
Worked directly alongside BlackRock engineering leads to understand domain constraints, align deliverables with business requirements, and manage expectations through weekly progress reviews.
Authored comprehensive technical documentation including system architecture diagrams, API contracts, data flow specifications, and runbooks for handover to the client's internal team.

GoPythonREST APIsAnalyticsFinTechData Pipelines

Staff SDE 2B — EnterpriseDB

7 years scaling the PostgreSQL monitoring and administration platform

2015 – 2022

Spent seven years as a core contributor and eventual technical lead on PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager) — EnterpriseDB's flagship on-prem PostgreSQL monitoring, alerting, and administration product used by enterprises worldwide.
Owned full-stack technical evolution from the early Flask/Python monolith backend through the phased migration to a modern React frontend and modular Python service layer, delivering 5+ major product versions.
Led the design and implementation of key product features including real-time server dashboards, alerting rule engines, query performance analytics, scheduled jobs management, and server group administration.
Defined and enforced RESTful API design standards across the product, improving consistency, developer onboarding speed, and backward compatibility for on-prem upgrade paths.
Contributed code improvements and bug fixes to pgAdmin4 — the world's most popular open-source PostgreSQL administration tool — demonstrating ecosystem-level depth and community engagement.
Played a key role in transforming PEM from a traditional monitoring tool into a modern, extensible product platform: introducing plugin-based architecture, theming support, and API-first data access.
Conducted architecture reviews, onboarded new engineers, ran sprint planning and retrospectives, and partnered with QA to define acceptance criteria and test coverage strategies.
Collaborated with technical writers and product managers to produce user documentation, release notes, and customer-facing feature guides for enterprise audiences.

PythonFlaskReactREST APIsPostgreSQLpgAdmin4Open SourceFull Stack

Member of Technical Staff — SR Labs

QA simulation platform for stock trade order flows

2014 – 2015

Designed and built a QA simulation platform for stock trade order flows, enabling the engineering team to validate trading workflow logic under realistic simulated conditions before production releases.
Built the backend simulation engine using Python and Flask, modelling order lifecycle states, matching logic, and error conditions to replicate live trading scenarios in a controlled environment.
Worked closely with domain experts and QA engineers to define realistic test scenarios, edge cases, and acceptance criteria that covered both happy-path and failure-mode behaviours.
Improved pre-production confidence across the team by providing a repeatable, automated test harness that reduced manual testing overhead and regression risk during release cycles.

PythonFlaskFinTechQA ToolingSimulation

Associate Consultant — Capgemini (Morgan Stanley)

In-house release management and deployment tooling for banking operations

2013 – 2014

Placed at Morgan Stanley as an Associate Consultant to design and deliver an in-house release management system, replacing a fragmented manual process with a centralised, auditable deployment workflow.
Built the release coordination system using Python and Perl CGI, providing a web-accessible interface for release scheduling, dependency tracking, approval workflows, and audit trail logging.
Integrated the system with existing deployment scripts and environment configuration tools, reducing the manual coordination overhead across multiple delivery teams and environments.
Liaised with release managers, operations leads, and application teams to gather requirements, validate the workflow model, and iterate on the tool based on real release cycle feedback.

PythonPerlCGIRelease ManagementBankingProcess Automation

Software Programmer — BNY Mellon

ETL pipelines, data marts, and enterprise financial reporting

2011 – 2013

Designed, developed, and maintained ETL pipelines and data mart workflows supporting critical enterprise-grade financial reporting systems for one of the world's largest custody banks.
Built data transformation and loading routines using Perl scripting and Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures, processing high-volume financial transaction data with strict accuracy, auditability, and performance requirements.
Worked on data reconciliation processes to validate source-to-target integrity across custody, settlement, and reporting data flows, ensuring compliance with reporting standards.
Diagnosed and resolved data quality and pipeline failures in production, collaborating with business analysts to understand root causes and implement preventive measures in the ETL workflow logic.
Gained foundational expertise in enterprise data engineering, relational modelling, and the demands of high-stakes financial data processing in a regulated environment.

PerlPL/SQLOracleETLData MartsBankingReporting

Open Source & Projects

Contributing to the PostgreSQL ecosystem

Public contribution history on GitHub — technical credibility backed by real commits.

pgAdmin4

github.com/mzabuawala

Contributed to pgAdmin4 — the world's most popular open-source PostgreSQL administration and development platform, used by millions of database professionals globally.

Delivered code improvements focused on practical engineering value and user-facing reliability.
Maintained a visible public commit history demonstrating depth in the PostgreSQL ecosystem.
Collaborated with the open-source community to identify, review, and land meaningful improvements.

pgAdmin4PostgreSQLPythonJavaScriptOpen Source

PMM Rescue Team Tracker

Mobile app for NGO rescue operations in Dahod.

Built a field-ready mobile app to improve rescue team coordination for an NGO.
Enabled real-time visibility for team movement and on-ground activity tracking.
Designed a low-friction UX for non-technical field users under live conditions.

MobileNGOUXOperations

Next-Gen PEM Observability

EnterpriseDB platform modernisation initiative.

Leading multi-year observability evolution for PostgreSQL monitoring at enterprise scale.
Integrated TypeScript, React, and Go into one cohesive developer and DBA experience.
Improved platform scalability, test coverage, and API-first architecture significantly.

TypeScriptReactGoObservability

Product Management

Converting ideas into shipped outcomes

Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate • 27+ certifications including Agile, Jira, AI, and Security.

Problem Framing

Translate stakeholder needs into user problems, constraints, and measurable goals. Align the team on what success looks like before writing a line of code.

MVP & Prioritisation

Define lean, high-value increments with clear trade-offs across time, scope, and quality. Use RICE and MoSCoW frameworks to keep backlogs actionable.

Execution Rhythm

Use agile planning and Jira discipline to sustain delivery momentum and team focus. Run sprint ceremonies that are concise, purposeful, and outcome-oriented.

Iteration & Learning

Use release feedback loops to refine roadmaps and increase product outcomes over time. Build a culture of measuring what matters, not just shipping what is asked.

Roadmap Communication

Present clear, business-aligned roadmaps to leadership and stakeholders. Bridge the gap between engineering constraints and product ambition effectively.

Quality & Risk Management

Define acceptance criteria, manage technical debt, and maintain quality gates throughout delivery. Apply OWASP security awareness from the start, not as an afterthought.

Credentials

27+ certifications with proof links

Spanning cloud, AI, security, data engineering, agile, and leadership.

Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry

LinkedIn • Mar 2026

I build resilient digital products and high-performance teams that deliver measurable outcomes.

Leadership with hands-on execution

Full-stack depth across modern technology stacks

Core Languages

Frontend

Backend & APIs

Databases

Cloud & DevOps

Process & Tooling

Building and scaling high-performance engineering teams

Team Building

Technical Mentoring

Architecture & Design

Stakeholder Alignment

Delivery Ownership

Cross-team Collaboration

14 years of measurable engineering impact

Contributing to the PostgreSQL ecosystem

pgAdmin4

PMM Rescue Team Tracker

Next-Gen PEM Observability

Converting ideas into shipped outcomes

Problem Framing

MVP & Prioritisation

Execution Rhythm

Iteration & Learning

Roadmap Communication

Quality & Risk Management

27+ certifications with proof links

Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry

Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

API Designer

Oracle Certified PL/SQL Developer

TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development (70-433)

Agile Project Management with Jira Cloud: 2 — Lean and Agile Processes

Agile Project Management with Jira Cloud: 1 — Projects, Boards, and Issues

Agile Foundations

Learning the OWASP Top 10

AI Productivity Hacks to Reimagine Your Workday and Career

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Learning TypeScript

Learning Docker

Become a Data Engineer: Mastering the Concepts

Faster Python Code

Python: Programming Efficiently

8 Things You Must Know in Python

Mindfulness

Strategic Thinking

Ken Blanchard on Servant Leadership

Fred Kofman on Managing Conflict

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Option B: Building Resilience

Certificate of Completion: jQuery Course

Certificate of Completion: JavaScript Fundamentals

Certificate of Completion: SQL Fundamentals

Certificate of Completion: Python Course

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