~/Arshan Shaikh

Software Engineer

Arshan Shaikh

Software engineer building fullstack systems and tools, mostly in TypeScript and Go. Interested in backend engineering, problem-solving, and how good engineering actually looks from the inside.

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Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • Python

Backend

  • Go
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Frontend

  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS

Cloud & Tooling

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
  • Jest
  • Cypress
  • Playwright

Projects

Quorum

A visual simulator of the CAP theorem modeling a replicated bank account across 3 nodes, demonstrating consistency/availability tradeoffs during network partitions.

  • TypeScript
  • Express
  • React

RSS Feed Aggregator

A lightweight RSS feed aggregator in Go. Register, follow feeds, and let the service continuously collect new posts in the background — one place instead of twenty blogs.

  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • sqlc
  • goose