Hi, I’m Majed

I didn't grow up around computers. The understanding of software's potential arrived late, where I was born in a remote region of India. I had this sense that next, this is all about computers, and that I could make something about my life out of it. But what followed for the next few years was chaotic. The family was not financially strong, and no one in the family has prior knowledge or understanding of computer engineering.

But you can not complain about what you don't have. This world rewards those who make things out of what they have.

Fast forward to 2016, I have spent five years in IT services, translating American client requirements into production software. In service-based companies, this is an important phase, as issues can arise later due to conflicts between what was requested and what was delivered. This style of work taught me to ask the right questions before writing code and to explain trade-offs to clients.

Later in my career, I moved into product engineering, where I learned what disciplined software development actually looks like. TDD, CI/CD, planning, and cross-functional team deliveries. I eventually led a team end-to-end through the design and deployment of insurance domain solutions.

In 2023, an Amazon recruiter reached out about an opening in Dublin. I prepared in three weeks, got through, and relocated. Today, I build orchestration services in the networking domain — the systems that data center operators depend on for capacity provisioning (bringing new racks online) and link troubleshooting (coordinating downstream services to find and fix issues quickly).

A normal day at work is planned deliverables, from design through production deployment and support. But debugging production incidents, understanding why a distributed workflow failed, and figuring out how to migrate a service without impacting operators are what I genuinely enjoy, not just work tasks.

I'm also paying attention to agentic software development and how AI-assisted workflows are changing the way engineers build and ship systems. The line between what I do at work and what I'm curious about is thin, and I prefer it that way.