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Arif Shaikh
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-native platforms and distributed systems
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Engineering leader and hands-on architect from Sony Pictures Entertainment who has led large-scale platform modernization, digital supply chain delivery, and multiple GenAI/RAG initiatives in media and rights-management domains. Notable for combining people leadership with deep AWS/LLM architecture work, including a 1M+ record GenAI title search system and AI-driven contract insights that reportedly helped unlock a 20% revenue increase.
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Key Strengths
- Led 20+ cross-functional engineers, tech leads, cloud, QA, and DevOps across U.S. and offshore teams
- Player-coach engineering leadership across architecture, delivery execution, and people development
- Drove modernization of Sony Pictures' title and metadata platform from end-of-life MDM to custom in-house solution
- Established strong operating cadence with leadership reviews, scrum, sprint planning, stakeholder roadmap reviews, and 1:1s
- Improved delivery predictability, stakeholder confidence, onboarding, and team ownership through standards and governance
- Expanded engineering automation with Terraform Enterprise, CI/CD, and automated functional testing
- Introduced GitHub Copilot/vibe coding and reported 40% velocity improvement
- Hands-on architect who validated decisions with POCs and technical demos to win team buy-in
- Designed scalable audit-trail architecture using S3, SQS, and async microservices instead of relational storage
- Strong tradeoff analysis across performance, queryability, reliability, and storage cost
- Built GenAI title search over 1M+ records using Neptune, RAG, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Bedrock, FastAPI, and React
- Focused on AI output quality with human review, prompt libraries, response logging, and accuracy evaluation against source data
- Simplified complex AI workflows for business users by improving response formatting and trust in LLM summaries
- Delivered AI-enabled contract insights that users credited with helping drive 20% revenue increase
- Balanced speed, reliability, and quality on a large digital supply initiative spanning 6 projects and 20+ integrations
- Influenced executives and product leadership to shift from big-bang delivery to MVP-based agile rollout
Reference Highlights
- significant technical leadership impact
- commitment to engineering excellence
- high standards for architecture and code quality
- demanding quality expectations
- strong accountability
- early collaboration mindset
- improved delivery quality
- inspires confidence in solutions
- player-coach leadership style
- hands-on support when needed
- thoughtful questioning of technical decisions
- effective mentor to developers and business analysts
- raises team technical capability
- curious about new technologies
- practical AI experimentation
- strong proof-of-concept execution
- asks the right questions
- challenges vendors effectively
- security-conscious and responsible approach
- strategic architecture guidance
- capability-focused thinking
- drives simplification and consolidation
- cost-conscious architecture mindset
- focus on stakeholder experience
- protects business operations and stability
- vast organizational influence
- deep institutional knowledge
- highly collaborative
- solution-oriented
- polished communicator
- communicates well with business and technical stakeholders
- excelled as an engineering lead
- brought best practices to the team
- at the forefront of new technologies
- proactive technology innovator
- strong advocate for better-fit technologies
- improved development efficiency
- accelerated turnaround of enhancement requests
- hands-on player-coach leadership
- effective mentor and coach
- closed team skill gaps on new technologies
- strong architectural guidance
- maintained development quality standards
- balanced technology choices with budget constraints
- reimagined user experience using AI
- focused on doing the right thing for the product and company
- business-needs oriented
- focused on business value
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