Shahzain Badruddin (He/Him)

I am an Engineering Manager and Technical Leader with 14+ years of experience that includes coaching and developing teams, building and architecting diverse solutions, and managing stakeholder relationships. Currently I am Head of Engineering at END. Clothing, managing multiple teams, delivering platforms and applications for millions of users. My prior experience includes both consulting roles and permanent hire positions within diverse businesses within e-commerce, non-profit, higher ed, and software product domains.

My hands-on skills include a mix of current and traditional tools: Kubernetes, Helm, GCP, Javascript, Node.js, Typescript, React, Redux, Next.js, Azure, AWS, NoSQL DBs (CouchDB, MongoDB), RxJS, Ramda, Git, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, and various CMS tools such as Contentful, Amplience, Adobe Experience Cloud.

By nature I am an autodidact and continuously strive to learn new and crazy things encompassing a wide range of subject matter spanning cosmology, philosophy, archaeology, and of course programming and computer science.

My mantras: Impact the world. Make a change. Keep smiling. Do it right and do it well.