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PUNE, INDIA
Zaheed Shaikh

Zaheed Shaikh

Known as Zahid

Senior Product Engineer shipping software that pays for itself.

I understand business, not just code, and I build software that directly increases revenue, cuts operational costs, ensures regulatory compliance, and scales operations — for maritime companies, heavy-equipment fleets, banks, fintech and EdTech startups, and nonprofits.

  • 01
    6+
    Years shipping production software
  • 02
    14
    Products shipped for clients
  • 03
    7
    Industries · maritime to construction
  • 04
    4
    Companies · product & consulting
01About

Engineering at the intersection of code and business outcomes.

Over the last 6 years, I've delivered 14 mission-critical products from scratch across 7 diverse industries, generating measurable ROI like 30–70% faster decisions, 40% less downtime, 3x user engagement, or new revenue streams. I collaborate with founders, CXOs, and investors to translate business challenges into reliable, scalable solutions shipped at high velocity.

Currently · Senior AI Native Product Engineer at Shurutech

Maritime
Mobility
Banking
Fintech
EdTech
Nonprofit
Construction
Maritime
Mobility
Banking
Fintech
EdTech
Nonprofit
Construction
02Experience

Six years of shipping for teams that need outcomes, not output.

ShurutechCurrent

Senior AI Native Product Engineer

Dec 2025 — PresentRemote

Product engineer deployed with Shuru's clients. I work inside client teams to understand what they need, shape it into something we can ship, and take features and whole apps from requirements to release. Beyond features, I look after what keeps a product dependable as it grows, like release pipelines, automated testing, monitoring and analytics. AI tools are part of how I plan, build and review every day.

Kiya.ai

Senior Associate Consultant

Feb 2024 — Nov 2025Remote

Consultant engineer for enterprise clients in the maritime industry. I worked with client teams to understand what they needed, broke it down into pieces we could deliver, built a good share of it myself and reviewed the rest, and made sure releases went out without surprises.

Rightbrain Infotech

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2021 — Jan 2024Remote

Built products for startups and established businesses in finance, logistics, education and the nonprofit sector. I usually took a feature or a whole app from requirements to release, worked directly with clients on what to build, and reviewed code and helped newer developers on the team.

Glixcel

Full-Stack Developer

Aug 2020 — Sep 2021Remote

My first role, on a small team building a product from scratch. I worked across the frontend and backend, and it's where I learned how a product actually comes together, from a rough idea and a deadline to something people use every day.

03Education
04Toolkit

The stack I reach for, by problem space.

AI Native & LLMs

16
Claude Code CLI
Anthropic API
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini
ChatGPT
v0 by Vercel
Perplexity
Vercel AI SDK
Gemini GenKit
Google ML Kit
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
LLM Orchestration
RAG Pipelines
AI-assisted TDD

Frontend

25
React
Next.js
React Native
Flutter
Angular
Vue.js
Svelte
Ionic
Capacitor.js
TanStack
TanStack Query
Redux/RTK
RxJS
TailwindCSS
Shadcn
Material UI
Bootstrap
Mapbox
AG Grid
HighCharts
Chart.js
Recharts
PWA
jQuery
WordPress

Backend & Data

26
Node.js
TypeScript
Dart
Express.js
NestJS
Flask
Electron.js
SQLite
Prisma
Convex
Firebase
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Clerk
Stripe
Razorpay
Google Maps
Google Calendar API
OpenAPI
Axios
Commander
Dotenv
Handlebars
Winston
Zod
Novu

DevOps & Cloud

14
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
Azure DevOps CI/CD
pnpm
Vercel
Netlify
AWS
New Relic
PostHog
Last9
Sentry
SonarQube
Bitrise

Testing & QA

09
Cypress
Jest
Playwright
Vitest
Testing Library
Appium
WebdriverIO
Postman
AWS Device Farm
05Selected work

A few projects that moved the numbers.

Dec 2025 – PresentShurutech

Tenderd's main app for companies that run large fleets of heavy equipment. It puts every machine in one place: whether it's working or idle right now and what it did before, where it is and the route it took, how much fuel it's using and when fuel goes missing, plus maintenance and moving machines between sites.

Fleet owners catch idle machines, fuel theft and overdue maintenance while it's happening, instead of finding out from a report days later.
React NativeTypeScriptTanStack QueryFirebaseNovuPostHogLast9Bitrise CI/CDAppiumWebdriverIOJest
Dec 2025 – PresentShurutech

Built for Tenderd's field technicians, the people who fit tracking devices onto client machines. It takes them through each installation job and records which device went on which machine and what was checked along the way.

Every install is done and recorded the same way, so a new client's fleet goes live with devices that are known to be fitted correctly.
React NativeTypeScriptTanStack QueryFirebaseNovuPostHogLast9Bitrise CI/CDAppiumWebdriverIOJest
Dec 2025 – PresentShurutech

For drivers and operators who report on their machines every day. They log hours of use, health and condition through simple checklists and photos, so each report shows at a glance what's fine and what needs attention.

Fleet managers see a machine's problems in the operator's daily report, photos included, before they turn into breakdowns.
React NativeTypeScriptTanStack QueryFirebaseNovuPostHogLast9Bitrise CI/CDAppiumWebdriverIOJest
Feb 2024 – Nov 2025Kiya.ai

The platform Hafnia's shore teams use to keep track of their tanker fleet: where each vessel is, how voyages are going, fuel use and emissions. I worked on the frontend, mostly the Mapbox vessel maps, AG Grid tables and HighCharts dashboards.

Used by shore teams across a fleet of 100+ tankers.
ReactReact NativeTypeScriptMapboxAG GridHighCharts
Feb 2025 – Jun 2025Kiya.ai

Electron desktop app for preparing and checking vessel emissions reports before they go into OceanPass, whose data shipowners, charterers and lenders use to judge a fleet's compliance. Data is stored locally in SQLite through Prisma.

Reports are checked before they're submitted, so mistakes get fixed by the vessel team instead of reaching charterers and lenders.
ReactElectron.jsTypeScriptSQLitePrismaTanStack Query
07Contact

Let's build something together.

If you're building something where engineering decisions meet business outcomes, I'd like to hear about it.

Response time
Usually within 24 hours
Timezone
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