Amir Heider Khan, Developer in Hudsonville, MI, United States
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Amir Heider Khan

Bio

Amir is a senior full-stack and back-end engineer with 7+ years of experience building high-throughput APIs in Go and Ruby on Rails (RoR). He's also skilled in modern front ends (React/Next/Ember), AWS, and CI/CD ownership: containerized services, EC2 autoscaling, IaC, and zero-downtime deploys. With proven impact on latency, reliability, he's comfortable learning and owning architecture, performance, and operational excellence end-to-end.

Portfolio

Apple
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Docker, Kubernetes, Sentry, New Relic, Grafana, Notion
FIS Global
Ruby, Go, React, TypeScript, Next.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Notion...

Experience

  • Coding - 10 years
  • Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 8 years
  • Ruby - 8 years
  • React - 8 years
  • Docker - 6 years
  • TypeScript - 6 years
  • System Design - 5 years
  • Go - 3 years

Preferred Environment

Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Go, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, PostgreSQL

The most amazing...

...ERP I've built handled 25,000 requirements per minute across 10,000+ accounts.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

2024 - 2025
Apple
  • Enhanced observability with Datadog and Grafana, cutting error rates by 20%.
  • Implemented RBAC and back-end services for data cleanup and user lifecycle management.
  • Led requirement discovery, ticket scoping, QA, and demos for multiple delivered processes.
  • Improved code quality and stability through RSpec/Capybara tests and code reviews.
  • Automated multi-step business workflows, reducing manual effort and improving reliability.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Docker, Kubernetes, Sentry, New Relic, Grafana, Notion

Senior Full-stack Developer

2021 - 2024
FIS Global
  • Led an architectural overhaul in Ruby on Rails (RoR), introducing design patterns such as single responsibility, strategy, and factory, improving maintainability and scalability.
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions (test, lint, scan, build) with artifact promotion and gated deploys, accelerating release cycles and increasing deployment reliability.
  • Integrated LLM APIs with task-specific context windows and cues, enabling more accurate, adaptive, and intelligent application behavior.
  • Improved system scalability and responsiveness by developing a high-performance Go API to handle high-load endpoints and reduce latency.
  • Strengthened quality assurance by implementing comprehensive testing frameworks with RSpec and Cypress, reducing issue tickets by 35% and boosting reliability.
  • Enhanced observability using New Relic, Sentry, and Grafana, reducing error rates by 20% and creating actionable internal metric dashboards.
  • Mentored and supported up to 5 engineers, promoting technical best practices, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the team.
Technologies: Ruby, Go, React, TypeScript, Next.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Notion, Sentry, New Relic, Grafana, Terraform, Stripe, Node.js

Experience

Apple iRecycle

An internal enterprise platform designed to manage the end-to-end recycling lifecycle for products and materials, from request initiation to processing and final disposition. It operates globally, supporting diverse workflows and enabling collaboration between multiple business units and stakeholders.

I contributed to system improvements by implementing automation, enhancing workflows, strengthening role-based access, improving system reliability, and ensuring the timely delivery of key initiatives. I partnered directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and turn them into a clear, executable plan. I also handled technical documentation, database design, and code architecture. I also used an integration approach and Miro boards to map workflows, keeping everyone aligned. From early design through planning and deployment, I led a three-person team and served as the primary point of contact, keeping delivery on track and communication smooth.

Enterprise Resource Planning SaaS

A Ruby on Rails (RoR) and Ember.js-based platform designed to manage and streamline finances, logistical operations, and management of large-scale events. I contributed to a Go microservice for 3rd-party integrators and stabilized contracts, pagination/rate-limit behavior, and endpoints for high throughput with low latency.

This application had over 10,000 accounts, each with about 250 users, and an average throughput of 25,000 requests per minute.

Education

2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis - Indianapolis, USA

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, Stripe

Tools

Sentry, Grafana, Notion, Terraform, Miro

Languages

Ruby, TypeScript, Go

Frameworks

Ruby on Rails (RoR), Next.js

Platforms

Docker, New Relic, Kubernetes, AWS IoT

Storage

PostgreSQL, Databases, MySQL

Paradigms

Microservices, Management

Other

Coding, Programming, Analytical Thinking, System Design, Networking, Adaptability, Data Science, GitHub Actions

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