Muhammad A. Shahid
Director of Software Engineering | Org-Scale Leadership | Marketplaces, Distributed Systems
- Role
- Director of Software Engineering at StockX
- Location
- Detroit, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Muhammad A. Shahid
Director of Software Engineering with 20+ years of total engineering experience and 10+ years of leadership experience leading multi-team organizations building revenue-critical platforms at scale. I specialize in growing high-performing engineering leaders, modernizing legacy systems, and translating product strategy into reliable execution.I’ve led organizations of 30+ engineers across multiple teams, owning core marketplace, seller experience, and platform services supporting tens of millions of users. My work has driven $500M+ in annual GMV through public APIs, partner integrations, and seller-facing platforms.I’m particularly passionate about platform modernization — decomposing monoliths into resilient distributed systems, improving availability to five-nines, and enabling teams to move faster with clear ownership and strong operational discipline.I value outcome-driven leadership, high talent density, and engineering cultures that balance speed with quality.
Experience
Director of Software Engineering
Apr 2024 — Present · Detroit, MI, US
Lead a 35+ person organization across 2 full-stack teams and 1 backend team, owning Seller Experience, Supply Chain, and Core Services platforms supporting ~40M MAU.
Education
McMaster University
B.Eng, Electrical Engineering
2003 — 2008
Skills
- Web Development
- Microservices
- Spring Boot
- Tomcat
- Web Applications
- Software Development
- Javascript
- Databases
- Web Services
- Jsp
- Eclipse
- Sql
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Hibernate
- Java
- Struts
- Spring Framework
- J2ee
- Eureka
- Java Software Development
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