Shaker Islam
Senior Research Engineer at Meta
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaker Islam is a Senior Research Engineer with over a decade of software experience building production-grade systems across startups and large tech firms, currently exploring EMG for input, health, and accessibility at Meta. His background spans real-time market balancing for food delivery, payments infrastructure, disputes and compliance, and a track record of turning monolithic systems into resilient, multi-region microservices. He blends ML, HCI, and embedded sensing research with pragmatic engineering—shipping low-latency supply/demand platforms at Grubhub and core payments APIs at Braintree. A Northwestern graduate in Computer Science and English, he brings interdisciplinary curiosity that surfaces in applied neural interface work and a habit of moving research prototypes toward scalable products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science and English, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science and English at Northwestern UniversityStuyvesant High School
Github Skills (164)
api10
vault10
simple-framework10
api-gateway10
data-center9
sql9
service-discovery9
database9
html9
python9
ruby9
multithreading9
mvc9
consul9
rack9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
theonion/videojs-vast-plugin
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
A VideoJS plugin for VAST
Contributions:17 commits in 3 months
videojs
shaqq/napa
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 19 branches in 8 months
apipythonsimple-frameworkgraphqlgrape
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