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Zaheet Batada

Zaheet Batada

Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead | Solution Architect

Toronto, Ontario, CA
(+1) 647-609-0385
English, Gujrati, Hindi

Background


About

About

Experienced Technical Team Lead and Solutions Architect with 6.5+ years of experience in scalable system development, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture. Proven leadership in driving B2B & B2C platform growth, optimizing booking systems, and integrating high-impact features that enhance user engagement and revenue. Passionate about delivering high-performance, secure, and efficient solutions, with expertise in Angular, NestJS, and cloud technologies.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Technical Team Lead | Stays Squad Lead | Acting Solution Architect - Contract, Almatar Group (B2B and B2C)

    Nov, 2024 - Present

    Architecting and leading the development of scalable B2B and B2C platforms, ensuring high performance, system reliability, and seamless partner integrations. Managing a team of 11 engineers across development, QA, and product management to drive innovation and operational excellence.

    • Led migration from legacy PHP monolith to NestJS microservices, enhancing scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity.

    • Improved system reliability with Grafana and Prometheus-based observability, reducing downtime and enhancing incident response.

    • Optimized partner integrations, saving $2M+ SAR monthly by improving API efficiency and fault tolerance.

    • Ensured high availability and stability for a platform handling 6-8M+ SAR in daily revenue through robust health checks and monitoring.

    • Standardized coding practices and strengthened security compliance, improving code quality, maintainability, and platform resilience.

  • Staff Software Engineer - Senior Consultant, Cuilsoft Pvt. Ltd.

    Aug, 2023 - Present

    Designed and developed scalable backend solutions for US and CA clients, focusing on microservices architecture and API performance.

    • Designed and developed a scalable appointment scheduling system for a healthcare company using NestJS, Kafka, Redis, and RMQ. Ensured high availability and low-latency booking operations by implementing event-driven architecture. Used Grafana to monitor API performance, identify database bottlenecks, and optimize queries, reducing system response times and improving reliability.

    • Developed a Car Health Check frontend using Angular, integrating real-time diagnostics and vehicle status tracking. Implemented a modular component architecture, improving code maintainability and scalability. Optimized UI performance with lazy loading and RxJS, reducing load times by 40%. Enhanced user experience with dynamic dashboards and interactive visualizations for vehicle diagnostics.

  • Senior Software Engineer | Hotel Squad Lead - Contract, Almatar (B2C)

    Mar, 2024 - Nov, 20248 months

    Led technical development for the hotel division, optimizing search and booking flows.

    • Developed Fortune Wheel retention feature, generating $10M+ in revenue within a week.

    • Built SmartBook, Rebooker, and optimized hotel search, reducing response times from 12s to 200ms-2s.

  • Software Engineer (B2B Team Lead), Almatar (B2B) - Contract

    Jan, 2023 - Mar, 20241 year 2 months

    Started in the Flights team and later transitioned to lead the development of the Travel Management System (TMS) from scratch in March. Scaled the system to handle 3,000+ weekly bookings by designing and implementing microservices using NestJS, Angular, Kafka, and AWS.

    • Integrated major hotel booking systems, enhancing service availability.

  • Technical Lead - Consultant, Cuilsoft Pvt. Ltd.

    Aug, 2022 - Aug, 20231 year

    Worked on live projects for US and CA clients, developing software solutions from scratch.

    • Built an ETL process for a healthcare company.

    • Developed a marketplace for a courier company using Laravel.

  • Software Engineer, Fitterfly

    Oct, 2020 - Jan, 20232 years 3 months

    Led Learning Management System (LMS) development, defining infrastructure and database schema.

    • Led Learning Management System (LMS) development, defining infrastructure, database schema, and optimizing backend services using Ruby on Rails (RoR) for scalability and performance.

    • Migrated AngularJS to Angular 13, significantly improving application speed, user experience, and maintainability.

    • Contributed to a Digital Therapeutics (DTx) platform, implementing best practices in RoR and securing $12M in funding through innovative product development.

  • Developer, Uplers

    Jul, 2020 - Sep, 20203 months

    Created a standard architecture that decreased the time to create HTML emails by 30-40%.

    • Implemented modular email templates for efficiency.

    • Enhanced code review processes for better maintainability.

  • Software Engineer, Shopyvilla Developers

    Aug, 2018 - Jun, 20201 year 10 months

    While in college, driven by a strong interest in building software solutions, I started working with Shopyvilla. Contributed to live projects for US and CA clients, developing scalable backend architectures and full-stack applications from scratch.

    • Developed a high-performance logistics marketplace for a courier company using PHP - Laravel, optimizing order processing and delivery tracking.

    • Designed and implemented a healthcare data management system.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • https://almatar.com/en

    Mar, 2024 - Present

    Architecting and leading B2B and B2C platform development, ensuring scalability and performance for Almatar's platform.

    • Optimized partner integrations, reducing system downtime and saving $2M+ per month.

    • Designed microservices architecture for high-performance booking and travel solutions used for 800+ bookings on daily basis.

  • https://business.almatar.com/

    Mar, 2023 - Present

    Led the B2B platform's Travel Management System (TMS), scaling it to 500+ weekly bookings.

  • https://console.almatar.com/

    Feb, 2023 - Present

    Worked on Almatar's console platform for administrators, ensuring smooth operations for B2B partners.

  • https://www.fitterfly.com/

    Oct, 2020 - Jan, 20232 years 3 months

    Led the development of the Learning Management System (LMS), contributing to the Digital Therapeutics (DTx) platform that secured $12M in funding.

    • Migrated AngularJS to Angular 13, significantly improving performance.

  • https://dtx-studio.fitterfly.com/

    Oct, 2020 - Jan, 20232 years 3 months

    Contributed to the development of the DTx Studio platform focused on digital therapeutics.

Skills

Skills

  • Backend

    Node.js

    NestJS

    TypeScript

    Microservices

    PHP

    Laravel

    ROR

    Golang

    RESTful APIs

  • Frontend

    Angular 17+

    Responsive Design

    RxJs

    HTML

    JS

    SCSS

  • Cloud & DevOps

    Docker

    Kubernetes

    AWS

    GCP

    Azure

  • Databases

    PostgreSQL

    MySQL

    MongoDB

    Redis

    Oracle

  • Messaging Queues

    Kafka

    RabbitMQ

  • Version Control & Agile

    Git

    Scrum

    Jira

    ClickUp

    Asana

Education

Education

  • Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Gujarat Technological University

    - Present

Interests

Interests

  • Travel Tech, Fin Tech, Health Tech

    Optimizing User ExperiencesScalable System Design