Sayef Reyadh.
Employment history[02]

Professional Experience


Optimizely

October 2023 – Present (2 Years 10 Months)
Senior Software Engineer — promoted April 2025Software Engineer II

Leading Web Experimentation initiatives and engineering excellence.

  • Led architecture and backend development of a real-time Contextual Bandit (CMAB) experimentation system delivering ML-driven personalization via low-latency APIs, reducing decision latency from ~400ms to under 200ms through hybrid Redis + session caching.
  • Built an AI-powered architecture intelligence system (Claude Code + GitHub Copilot) spanning 71 microservice repositories, with 15 custom investigation skills and 3 specialized agent personas.
  • Led migration of Edit Proxy from Python 2 to 3 on Google App Engine, reducing security vulnerabilities by 99% in 3 months.
  • Resolved a critical AWS DynamoDB auto-scaling issue for a high-load distributed system averaging 450 req/s with spikes to 45K during peak hours, achieving 99.9% uptime.
  • Mentored junior engineers and performed code reviews, enforcing best practices and guiding system design decisions.
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Craftsmen

April 2021 – October 2023 (2 Years 7 Months)
Software Development Engineer II — promoted January 2023Software Development Engineer I

Cloud-native SaaS product development in collaboration with Kunnusta.

  • Architected distributed, event-driven backend systems for a multi-tenant newsroom SaaS platform serving European customers.
  • Led migration of news microservices to serverless-first architecture using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and SQS — achieving 99% uptime and 50%+ performance improvement.
  • Initiated migration of 2 AWS Fargate-based microservices to Lambda, increasing cold start speed by 50%+ and reducing monthly costs by ~40%.
  • Designed backend REST APIs for publishing to Instagram and TikTok via OAuth 2.0.
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