Farid W. | Site Reliability Engineering Coach

Farid W.

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Senior Engineering Manager at Capital One | Expert SRE Cloud Optimization

Studied at University of Texas at Dallas

Works at Capital One

Available Saturday at 2:00 AM UTC

Usually responds within 1 hour

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Farid’s Site Reliability Engineering Qualifications

Coaches professionally

Experience level: Director

10+ people coached for Site Reliability Engineering

Open to working with clients outside the U.S.

Farid has helped clients get into these companies:

Welcome to my profile! With over a decade of experience in software engineering and site reliability, I currently serve as a Senior Engineering Manager at Capital One, where I lead initiatives to optimize cloud infrastructure and enhance data security. My journey includes pivotal roles at Amazon, Pennymac, and State Farm, where I have consistently driven efficiency and innovation in data management and application development. I specialize in mentoring and developing engineering teams, having successfully increased team capacity and reduced operational issues significantly. If you're looking to break into site reliability engineering or elevate your career, let's connect and create a tailored plan to achieve your goals!

Farid can help with:

Skill Building

LinkedIn Review

Incident Response

Promotion Strategy

Resume Review

Networking Strategy

Performance Optimization

System Monitoring

Automation

Freelancing

Site Reliability Engineering

Technical Interview Prep

Behavioral Interview Prep

Farid also coaches for Software Engineering, Engineering, Management Consulting, Leadership Development, and IT Management. View all.

About Farid

Schedule a Free 15 mins intro call: - Goal —let’s see if we can be a great duo —under if can bring value and help you —no press and no push —no catch Farid Wahabzada, a seasoned Senior Software Engineering Manager, holds a Bachelor's in Software Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas. In his current role at Capital One, he's reshaping banking through efficient processes, reducing cloud costs by 25%. With expertise in Python, Java, and AWS services, Farid has a proven track record at PennyMac and Amazon, streamlining systems and driving innovation. His skills include team leadership, efficient deployments, and a commitment to ongoing learning, making him a valuable asset in any tech-driven environment.

Why do I coach?

Coaching matters deeply to me because I've personally experienced the transformative impact of mentorship. Earlier in my career, I navigated challenges with the guidance of mentors who provided invaluable insights and support. Their influence not only helped me overcome obstacles but also accelerated my professional growth. Now, I'm passionate about paying it forward, leveraging my experiences to empower others in their journey, making coaching an essential aspect of my commitment to continuous learning and development.

Work Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Capital One

October 2022 - Present

Defining a new way of banking through the use of efficient process improvement. Introducing data standards and modeling to increase efficiency in the enterprise. Data ETL and data convergence to have production ready data available for enterprise and end users. Working with industry leaders and external partnerships of corporations to increase competition and compatibility with our services and card. While increasing industry compliance, regulatory and audit standards to ensure highest quality and trust. Leading the way as a engineering leader and a technical visionary to advance data security, protection, and modernization efforts. Decreasing cloud infrastructure cost by over 25% by optimizing the pipeline and simplifying application architecture. Decreased application, storage and infrastructure errors and critical issues by 50% by introducing operational excellence. Increased team capacity by 40% and decreased agile burn down chart by over 30% by standardizing, improving and maintaining documentation and processes implementation for features and priorities restructuring. Leadership, Mobile Applications and +11 skills

Software Development Manager

Pennymac

February 2021 - October 2022

• Lead the team to meet goals and developed strategies to better document and design systems and applications standard procedures. • Challenged ways of production ready applications and innovated with cloud technologies of AWS to better serve seamless apps. Owned platforms and application and took full responsibility for all operational change Developed, mentored and increased productivity of individuals and got them onboarded SQL, Agile Methodologies and +5 skills

Senior software engineering lead

Pennymac

October 2020 - October 2022

Introduced highly efficient user management and data access application which reduced overall system and operations stress. • Architected,reviewed and developed highly complex ETL,Data,governance& reporting internal and public applications within a fast paced team. • Made development with SQS,S3,Cognito,Lambda,apigateway,cloudwatch....etc system more streamlined and standardized for team to follow.

Cloud engineering lead

Amazon

December 2019 - November 2020

AWS team Developer and Mobile Apps, solving complex problems and architecting new solutions. Gather requirements and work with various teams to formulate program Creating POC to help resolve and improve solutions through AWS Lambda, Cognito, Connect, API-Gateway, EC2, DynamoDB and S3 Developer utilizing Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, iOS/Objective-C/Swift, Rest API, inter-application messaging & queueing, develop mobile apps, version control systems, virtualization, ansible, terraform and clouformation for configuration management

Software Engineer

State Farm

January 2018 - December 2019

Found ways to innovate lifewiki and made custom plugins for gitbook Streamlined projects with the use of git for project repo and git lab to manage each project Made significant contributions with cross teams while using safe agile for structure

General Contractor

Times Internet

January 2007 - January 2019

Made efforts to help towards developing and innovating online presence • Influenced various website and hardware for business and family members • Made improvements with developments , internet technologies and online presence • Improved various websites and business start-up to rank number 1 on search engines through SEO, CSM, and content management skills and audience marketing strategies • Streamlined safety and security of servers and online applications • Established ways to maintain and assisted with computer upgrades and technology decisions

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