@sharukhalisyed
Sharukhali Syed
@sharukhalisyed
Developer by Day, Visionary Builder by Night
Developer by Day, Visionary Builder by Night
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SDE-1, ICICI Lombard
Mumbai, India
Software Engineer
Distributed Systems • Web3 Infrastructure • Applied AI
Experience
Software Engineer (L3) — ICICI Lombard
- Event-Driven Architecture: Engineered high-throughput lead ingestion pipelines utilizing AWS SQS, Lambda, and Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) with guaranteed delivery and retry semantics.
- Core Microservices: Designed centralized, reusable microservices focused on clean architecture, correlation-ID tracing, and enterprise security controls against injection vulnerabilities.
- Applied AI: Integrated Vertex AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for automated session state management and contextual policy assistance.
Technical Accomplishments & Track Record
Winner — Stellar Builders Residency
- Event: Stellar Builders Residency (Zo House, Bangalore)
- Project: Decentralized multiplayer gaming system built on Stellar Blockchain.
- Grant: 12k USD in XLM (Lumens) under SCF-29
- Collaborators: Vairamuthu (@Barfi_31), Hema Devi
- Links: Announcement 1 | Announcement 2

Winner ($2,500 USD Bounty) — Aptos Winter School (Season 2)
- Venue: BITS Pilani, Goa Campus
- Project: On-chain multiplayer game protocol developed on Aptos Blockchain.
- Collaborators: Gurshabad (@gurshabad90), Satyansh (@satyansh_mittal), Anukul (LinkedIn)
- Links: Post 1 | Post 2 | Post 3

Asia Finalist — Pan IIT Imagine Hackathon 2025
- Recognition: Selected among Top 15 teams out of 3,000+ participating teams across Asia.
- Project: Funzo — Outcome-as-a-Service (OaaS) automation platform.
- Reference: LinkedIn

Regional Qualifier — Solving for India Hackathon
- Project: SDG-aligned health platform incorporating predictive wellness modeling and activity tracking.
- Links: Website | LinkedIn

Quest Bounty Winner — Social Summer of Code (SSOC)
- Focus: Authorization architecture via Open Policy Administration Layer (OPAL).
- Project: Real-time policy state synchronizer pushing instant access-control updates to edge agents.
- Repository: ActionList-OPAL

Winner — ICICI Lombard Hackathon
- Links: LinkedIn Announcement
Some MeetUps
Had the privilege of meeting & small talk with Anupam Mittal during the TEAM(Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai) at Jio World Convention Centre. His journey in democratizing the internet business in India is a case study in resilience and vision.
