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    "name": "Muneeb Khawaja",
    "label": "Software Engineer",
    "email": "muneeb@muneebkhawaja.com",
    "url": "https://muneebkhawaja.com",
    "summary": "Solution-driven, goal-oriented software engineer who believes in delivering well-documented, high-quality code and maximizing business value.",
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    {
      "name": "Scholastic Inc.",
      "location": "New York, NY",
      "position": "Software Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.scholastic.com/",
      "startDate": "2021-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Built AutoPatch, an internal agentic OSS patching tool using Anthropic’s Claude Code with Context7 and Snyk MCPs to apply vulnerability fixes, **saving ~5 hours per patching cycle**.",
        "Designed and led **AskClifford, an internal GenAI RAG chatbot** built with Python and LangChain/LangGraph, backed by a PostgreSQL (PGVector) based multi-vector retrieval architecture; **mentored 6 engineers** on extending and operating the system, and presented the design and lessons learned at the 2024 Scholastic Tech Summit.",
        "Delivered an internal tech talk on Java-based GenAI frameworks (Spring AI) to **15+ engineers** at the 2025 Scholastic Tech Summit, establishing shared patterns for AI integration and accelerating informed adoption across teams.",
        "Developed robust RESTful services and event-driven batch processing applications using **Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Integration**, supporting both **relational** (MSSQL) and **NoSQL** (MongoDB) databases; followed **TDD** practices and built comprehensive test suites with JUnit 5, Mockito, Selenium, and Cucumber to ensure reliability across microservices and integration workflows.",
        "Maintained **99.99%** uptime for core Product MDM systems over 12 months by strengthening observability, alerting, and operational readiness, **exceeding the 99.9% SLA**.",
        "Reduced build artifact sizes by **~60%** (1.5GB → 600MB) across **~7 microservices** by fixing transitive dependency bloat in shared libraries, **cutting deployment times by 50%.**",
        "Refactored a long-running database sync pipeline by applying Java multithreading techniques, reducing ingestion time from **40 minutes to under 5** and significantly accelerating Kafka-based downstream processing.",
        "Rebuilt a legacy ETL framework with modular design and **93.5% test coverage**, cutting delivery time from **weeks to under an hour** and dramatically improving maintainability",
        "Migrated **15+ microservices** to AWS EKS and standardized CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Git, SonarQube, and Snyk, improving build stability and reducing operational overhead.",
        "Served as **Security Champion**; led remediation across **20+ applications** using SonarQube and Snyk, enforced OWASP standards, and drove secure coding practices through tooling and review processes.",
        "Migrated secrets for **15+ production services to HashiCorp Vault,** eliminating hardcoded credentials and enabling scoped access and automated rotation to strengthen security and operational safety.",
        "Configured end-to-end observability using DataDog and SumoLogic, including tracing, environment-aware parameterized dashboards, alerting, and monthly KPI reviews. Improved detection and resolution of production issues, reduced downtime, and strengthened accountability for system performance.",
        "Migrated a brittle **legacy Python 2 application to Python 3**, increased test coverage from **0% to 96%**, and re-architected it to deliver vendor-specific product data (ONIX) over FTP/SFTP/SMB using configuration files instead of code changes, making the system far more stable and easier to extend.",
        "Led the migration of **8+ messaging applications** from Kafka 0.8 to Kafka 2, modernizing legacy infrastructure and doubling throughput while significantly improving reliability across event-driven microservices."
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      "institution": "Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)",
      "url": "https://www.qc.cuny.edu/",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Arts",
      "startDate": "2017-08",
      "endDate": "2020-12",
      "score": "3.96 / 4.00"
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    {
      "title": "Summa Cum Laude",
      "date": "2020-12",
      "awarder": "Queens College, CUNY"
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    {
      "title": "Loren Scholarship Recipient",
      "awarder": "Queens College, CUNY"
    },
    {
      "title": "Dean's List (Presidential Scholar)",
      "awarder": "Queens College, CUNY"
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      "name": "Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 11 Developer",
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    {
      "name": "AWS Certified AI Practitioner",
      "issuer": "Amazon Web Services",
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        "Python",
        "JavaScript",
        "TypeScript",
        "Bash"
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        "Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring AI, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring JDBC, Spring MVC)",
        "Hibernate / JPA",
        "Apache Camel",
        "Springdoc OpenAPI",
        "Django",
        "FastAPI",
        "LangChain",
        "LangGraph",
        "JUnit 5",
        "Mockito",
        "AssertJ",
        "REST Assured",
        "Selenium WebDriver",
        "Cucumber",
        "TestNG"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Tools & Technologies",
      "keywords": [
        "OpenAPI / Swagger",
        "Maven",
        "uv",
        "Poetry",
        "pytest",
        "Kafka",
        "JMS",
        "Apache ActiveMQ",
        "Postman",
        "Jira",
        "IntelliJ IDEA",
        "VS Code",
        "GitHub Copilot",
        "Claude Code",
        "Codex"
      ]
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    {
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        "AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, Bedrock, Textract, Quick Sight)",
        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes",
        "NGINX",
        "Tomcat",
        "LocalStack",
        "Heroku",
        "DigitalOcean"
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        "CI/CD",
        "Jenkins",
        "GitHub Actions",
        "Terraform",
        "Ansible",
        "HashiCorp Vault",
        "SonarQube",
        "Snyk",
        "Wiz",
        "OWASP practices",
        "DataDog",
        "Sumo Logic",
        "alerting",
        "distributed tracing",
        "KPI dashboards"
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      "name": "Data Technologies & Query Languages",
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        "SQL (PostgreSQL)",
        "NoSQL (MongoDB)",
        "Redis",
        "OpenSearch"
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