Shakir James, PhD
	

	

Employment
	Software Dev Manager
	Amazon Web Services (AWS)
	Dec 2020–Present
	* Build AWS Accounts for all customers to create accounts and access other services.


	CTO
	DTI Management
	Nov 2017–Dec 2020
	* Restructure the engineering team into small crews: growing by ten times for a $300MM/year enterprise.
* Implement agile dev processes: reducing the release interval from weeks to hours.
* Design architecture for cloud migration: achieving 0% downtime for sales processing.


	CTO
	1Ticket.com
	July 2017–Dec 2020
	* Move to a serverless, microservice architecture on AWS: reducing infrastructure costs by 7.4 times. 
* Reduce the number of double sales across key marketplaces by five times: increasing revenue by 4 times.
* Build an infinitely scalable backend architecture: increasing throughput from 2k tickets/hour to 200k/hour. 


	Assistant Professor
	University of the District of Columbia
	Aug 2014–Aug 2018
	* Taught cloud computing: principles, algorithms, and tech (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Hadoop, EMR).
* Taught network security and cryptography: theory, implementation, and hacking with Python 3.
* Taught advanced web development: techniques and technologies (React, Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL).


	Senior R&D Engineer
	 Observable Networks
	Nov 2012–July 2014
	* Developed fast scalable data structures for big data analysis; reduced query time by 190 times.
* Automated server provisioning and deployment on Amazon EC2; reduced install time by 10 times.


	Research Assistant
	Washington University in St. Louis
	Aug 2006–Nov 2012
	* Built a peer-to-peer app and protocol that reduced costly traffic and distribution time by 40  and 41 times. 


	Technical Intern
	Intel Corporation
	May 2008–Aug 2008
	* Developed utilities and methods to analyze the I/O dependence of Intel x86-based Unix applications.
	Education
	St. Louis, MO
	Washington University in St. Louis
	Aug 2006–Dec 2012
	* Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2012. GPA: 3.6
* M.S. in Computer Engineering, May 2009. GPA: 3.6
	Wichita Falls, TX
	Midwestern State University
	Aug 2002–May 2005
	* B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics (Double Major), May 2005. GPA: 3.9
	Technical Experience
	Projects 
	* Open-source (2019). Contributed to AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) and AWS CloudFormation.
* Micro-framework (2019). Built for serverless APIs: enabling local development. (Python, LocalStack)
* Bitmap Filters (2014). Sped up query execution with in-memory data structures: compared to SQL, faster by 10–290 times. (Python, SQLAlchemy, Amazon S3, RedShift, Redis).
	Additional Experience and Awards
	* Publications (2007–2013): Wrote and published ten research papers.
* Chancellor’s Fellow (2006–2011): Awarded a competitive five-year fellowship to complete Ph.D. 
* Intel Goodie Drawer Award (2008): Honored for delivering timely and relevant analyses. 
* President’s Medal of Excellence (2005): Won graduation medal for highest GPA in college.

See details in my curriculum vitae.