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Hello I’m
Shehryar Amin
A software engineer who knows their way around figuring stuff out, but still can’t center a div without asking the AI
now
- MSc Computer Science at Uppsala University 2025–2027
also a research assistant: symbolic execution for IoT protocol testing, found memory corruption bugs in libcoap (CVEs pending)
before
- Backend Engineer, Redirhub
2024–2026
Go, Kafka, ClickHouse; 115M+ click events a day - Backend Engineer, Syllaby
2023–2025
AI video generation pipelines, Stripe ETL, social publishing for 6 platforms - Backend Engineer, RedLayers
2022–2023
query optimization, 3D modeling backend - earlier: DevZone, Valyrian Systems, SplitTrip, Inisev, Flower Station
writings
- Hacking
SQLite functions in PHP 2024
mocking SQL functions SQLite lacks with PDO user-defined functions