# Wahab S.

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/wahab

Senior backend/infrastructure engineer with experience improving large-scale distributed web architectures. Also experienced in data security & regulatory compliance.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ ID.me
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Coinbase
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Security Engineering Team
- Led 3 other engineers and 2 TPMs in a migration of cryptocurrency keys backing $3B of customer funds onto a multi-party computation signing platform

- Drove disaster recovery compliance by creating scripts and runbooks for secure offline backups and restores of multiple databases hosting ~800GB of customer data

- Developed a new internal web service that became part of the critical path in generating cryptocurrency wallets

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
VM Import/Export Team
- Implemented a zero-downtime full data store migration for Ruby and Java applications hosted across 26 AWS regions and handling hundreds of reads/writes per second

- Improved multiple services spanning >100K lines of code by leading a team of 3 engineers in upgrading library versions, rebuilding an integration testing framework, raising unit test coverage from 10% to 80%, creating telemetry dashboards, and writing documentation

### Senior Software Engineer @ Branch International
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Platform/Infrastructure Team
- Built the internal identity and access management system and integrated an external password management service for all 80 employees in the company

- Enabled the launch of customer lending in Nigeria and Mexico by implementing bank API integrations and backend logic for transactions

- Achieved data security compliance with Indian regulations by architecting the encryption of sensitive customer data and hardening of ~40 cloud-hosted servers across 2 regions

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Yammer Services Team
- Improved notification service latency and reliability, leading to ~10% higher customer tap-through rate

- Led support engineers in maintaining response SLA for high-priority tickets

- Team owner of 2017 disaster recovery compliance exercises

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Research Associate @ Duke University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Developed a model simulation of metabolic pathways for a bioengineered microbe design. Designed methods to improve yield of desired metabolic output under varying constraints (MATLAB)

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Evaluated gene-mediated cellular responses to external stress conditions via DNA extraction and purification protocols. Reported on genes that had a statistically significant variation in expression (MATLAB, Excel).


## Education
### B.S.E in Biomedical Engineering. Minor in Economics
Duke University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23