# Zayn Abed > SWE @ Roblox Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zayn Checkout my portfolio 💼: www.zaynabed.com ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Roblox Jan 2025 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States Software engineering new grad on the user journeys team ### Open-Source Core Team Lead @ Google Developer Student Clubs McMaster University Jan 2024 – Present | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • Leading and managing a team of developers, defining project requirements, setting development milestones, and ensuring the successful deployment of an AI-assisted journaling and mood-tracking application focused on mental health • Leveraging technologies such as React.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Express.js, and MySQL to efficiently build the application, incorporating GCP Natural Language AI and GCP Dialogflow to enhance mood analysis and user interaction capabilities ### Full Stack Developer @ Doctalk Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Enhanced email delivery and reduced internal tool costs by developing an internal drag-and-drop email builder with React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, and PostgreSQL • Enabled the product team to autonomously release notifications and alerts by designing and integrating a notification workflow builder using Node.js webhooks and PostgreSQL triggers • Improved database performance and reduced I/Os enhancing overall system reliability by prototyping a Python ETL to distribute application events from Redis and PostgreSQL to Apache Kafka clusters ### Open-Source Core Team Developer @ Google Developer Student Clubs McMaster University Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • Developing REST API endpoints with Python and FastAPI for an automated machine learning service • Automating upload of Docker images to Google Cloud Platform Artifact Registry using Terraform and GitHub Actions, then deploying on Google Kubernetes Engine for a scalable and efficient pipeline infrastructure ### Software Engineering Intern @ SciCan Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Resolved 700+ tickets in an agile environment for an enterprise web portal dedicated to monitoring IoT medical devices by fixing bugs, implementing designs, and testing features with React, JavaScript, and Sass • Drove sales growth through a 430% increase in promotional initiative submissions compared to the previous quarter by implementing campaign pages using Hugo, Sass, and JavaScript • Enhanced operational efficiency of the business website through improved asset management and a 91% decrease in code build time by compiling all images and documents to be retrieved from AWS S3 • Optimized resource allocation and achieved cost savings by streamlining the website translation process. Eliminated human error of manually changing 5000+ lines of JSON and reduced translation process time from days to 3 hours by creating Node.js and Python scripts to automatically implement translations to JSON • Reduced testing overhead for developers by 5 hours weekly, allowing for more efficient and streamlined development cycles through automating tests by leveraging AWS Canaries, Node.js, and TypeScript to establish smoke screen alarms and implementing end-to-end regression tests • Ensured that IoT devices functioned according to specifications by conducting functional and integration tests on AWS MQTT test client and CloudWatch log groups to validate MQTT messages • Launched the company marketing blog initiative by demonstrating the viability of a prototype blog to the marketing department, designed and built with Next.js, Strapi headless CMS, and Tailwind CSS, receiving their approval for further development ### Research Assistant @ Materials Science & Engineering - McMaster University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada • Increased ultimate tensile strength of aluminum by 51% through chemical anodizing for increased durability in bulletproof vesting. Documented the installation and procedure of chemically anodizing aluminum and performing statistical analysis of micrographs in MATLAB • Researched, mounted, polished, etched, and photographed the micro-structure of iron-nitrogen diffusion couples ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Software Engineering McMaster University Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zayn-abed - Website: https://www.zaynabed.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/zayn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zayn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20