# Azhad Syed

> Software Engineer at January

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/azhad

Engineering innovative financial solutions at January for 4+ years, where I design and build products that power seamless experiences for lenders, borrowers, and internal teams. My expertise spans the full spectrum of fintech product development, with a current specialization in money movement systems and regulatory compliance.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ January
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer II @ January
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer I @ January
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States

### Participant @ Recurse Center
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Transitioned from corporate finance to software engineering during an educational retreat where I studied CS fundamentals and completed full-stack personal projects.

### Finance Manager @ 88RISING
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
–	Forecasted record sales, merch profits & budgets, and tour profits for 88rising’s various business units
–	Developed ETL pipelines to extract actionable insights from royalty statements and third-party market data
–	Empowered C-suite with KPI’s and predictive models to drive decisions across business units
–	Collaborated with marketers, business developers and within cross-functional teams to build data displays, quality-of-life enhancements, and procedural workflows

### Royalty Analyst @ Universal Music Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Woodland Hills, California
–	Accounted royalties for Cash Money Records (Drake, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Tyga); Quality Control Music (Migos, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty); and additional support for full UMG roster
–	Prepared and analyzed royalty metadata reports to build Excel-based quality-of-life enhancements to the royalty adjustment, article reconciliation and internal audit processes
–	Leveraged SAP data warehouses to explore/audit historical data, including 20+ years of Lil Wayne data for analysis contributed to the Lil Wayne v. Universal Music Settlement

### Royalty Coordinator @ Spirit Production Music
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Studio City, CA
–	Owned the royalty administration workflow for all of Spirit’s composer and publisher accounts
–	Briefed artist agreements and licenses for song shares, rates, territories, and other contractual data
–	Overhauled existing ETL workflows using Python and VBA scripting, resulting in exponential time savings

### Music Licensing/Studio Intern @ AECG
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Analyzed royalty income statements to report growth, balance discrepancies and identify PRO registrational errors 
- Created client playlists and engaged in assistant music supervision for reality TV, docuseries and feature film projects
- Proofed and spotted feature length foreign scripts for redubbing, and prepped engineer sessions and VO-ready scripts for talent and control room
- Analyzed work assignments and historical data to provide regressional trends for busiest in-house studio days, and day-over-day trends for studio usage across company spaces

### Sound Technician @ The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Daily Operations in audio systems for live music performance, including board operation for 150 piece ensemble during rehearsals and performances
- Coordinating nightly teams in setup and sound check for live venues including Lucas Oil Stadium, Alamodome, Gillette Stadium, and other NFL stadiums
- Daily Maintenance of microphones, cables, mixers, power supplies, and related live sound equipment

### Audio Production Intern @ EBC Radio
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | South Brunswick, NJ
- Mixed and mastered commercials and promos for NJ's #1 South Asian radio station
- Edited Hindi songs and production music for broadcasting and updated music library databases
- Spearheaded studio software overhaul and addition of updated workflow and security practices


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Radio, Television, and Film
Northwestern University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/azhad-syed

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Last updated: 2026-03-23