Sharif Moosa - Resume | Software Engineer. Secure by design.

Stripe

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2021 - Nov 2022

Led planning, architecture, and execution for an as-yet unreleased customer-facing Stripe Identity product offering, including designing a public API, private gRPC APIs, database modeling for highly available storage, and architecting distributed microservices, asynchronous workflows, and underlying infrastructure.
Modernized security, privacy, observability, and infrastructure practices. Examples include:
- Replacing ad-hoc end-user-facing access tokens with more secure variants using centralized, encrypted, repudiable, and ephemeral access tokens.
- Implementing routing infrastructure to ingress web traffic from global edge nodes, significantly reducing latencies for end-users outside the US.
- Driving the use of TerraForm across multiple teams to author product health detectors and dashboards deployed in SignalFX and Prometheus, which helped significantly reduce time to detect incidents.
Implemented developer tooling to enable all Stripe developers to locally test Vitess+MySQL databases backed by an access proxy in a production-like setup, as part of a Stripe-wide tech stack migration effort.

Google

Software Engineer

Aug 2019 - Oct 2021

Developed and launched an internal GCP IAM configuration control plane to significantly improve developer velocity and reduce integration times.
Developed declarative IAM enforcement automation features to standardize and automate internal GCP IAM integrations.
Significant work on improving the reliability of GCP IAM.

Microsoft

Software Engineer 2

March 2017 – August 2019

Led a 4-person team in developing a full stack application integrating with enterprise customers’ ticketing systems, including exposing an external API and UI, backend data processing, caching, and storage.
Leading a team in developing and maintaining an internal full-stack human labelling platform used to drive machine learning algorithms to improve Windows’ users safety.
Developing software projects for Windows Defender, including internal infrastructure platforms for managing data science workflows.

Software Engineer

September 2013 – March 2017

Developing software projects for the Windows Live Safety Platform as part of the Application Reputation and URL Reputation teams.
Expanding Windows’ protection against malicious applications and URLs, including integrating real-time protection features into Windows.