Muqeet Ahmed Malik

Software Engineer · London

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Consulting engineer with 10 years of experience across entertainment, energy, and fintech. At Disney, led product initiatives serving 100M+ daily requests and was selected from 300+ engineers for a resiliency tiger team whose work became the company-wide gold standard. At Kiwi Power, led teams delivering £1M+ in revenue-generating client projects, including the UK’s first constraint management platform for the National Grid.

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  • Languages: Scala, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, SQL, Python
  • Systems & Data: Microservices, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Kafka, Redis, Spark, gRPC, GraphQL, Protobuf, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Elasticsearch
  • Cloud & Reliability: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Chaos Engineering, SLOs/SLIs, Circuit Breakers, Grafana, Prometheus
  • Identity & Experimentation: OAuth2/OIDC, LaunchDarkly, Feature Management, A/B Testing, Load Testing
  • AI & Agentic: Claude Code, Agentic Coding, LLM Integration, Prompt Engineering
  • Domains: Entertainment, Energy Markets, Fintech, IoT, Grid Services, Experimentation Platforms

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Software Engineering Consultant — Identity Jul 2024 – Present

  • Owned highly distributed services handling 100M+ requests per day across Disney consumer products — Hulu, ESPN, Parks, and Streaming.
  • Selected from 300+ engineers for a cross-functional tiger team of 8. Reduced production incidents from multiple per month to zero — work adopted as the company-wide gold standard.

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Principal Software Engineer Jul 2023 – Jul 2024

  • Authored the company’s first international technology roadmap, approved by the CEO and founders. Designed a successful £100K technology grant proposal.
  • Built an IoT-integrated platform for European energy markets, securing the company’s first international client. Reduced infrastructure costs by 70%.

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Senior Software Engineer — Experimentation Platform Aug 2021 – Jul 2023

  • Built a production experimentation and feature flagging platform adopted across the business, saving millions in external service fees.
  • Redesigned system architecture within the first two months, significantly improving resilience through database replication and multiple load balancers.

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Software Engineer → Technical Lead Apr 2018 – Aug 2021

  • Led three client projects worth £1M+ as Team Lead, including the UK’s first constraint management platform for the National Grid — later acquired by National Grid.
  • Mentored two junior engineers who progressed to roles at a unicorn startup and the UK’s largest supermarket.

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Big Data Engineer May 2017 – Apr 2018

  • Built the company’s first streaming pipeline, migrating batch processing to Amazon Kinesis for live reporting.

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Intern Analyst → Data Scientist Jan 2016 – Apr 2017

  • Developed the company’s first production AI algorithm, increasing mobile game revenue by 10% through player churn prediction.
  • Founded Square Enix UK’s first Data Science team.

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BSc Physics, First Class Honours