Resume

Software engineering across mobility, geospatial, and healthcare.

Arshiya Sayyed

SWE · Lyft · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

arshiyasayyed8@gmail.com|(647) 673-2138|linkedin.com/in/arshiyasayyed

Summary

I build backend systems across mobility, geospatial, and healthcare. At Lyft, I shipped rider products for older adults and teens and now work on the backend bringing the app to Europe. At SkyWatch, I built enterprise org management APIs for a satellite imagery platform. At GE Healthcare, I built event-driven microservices on AWS for medical imaging workloads.

Skills

  • Languages: Python, TypeScript, Java, SQL, Go
  • Data and storage: PostgreSQL (Amazon RDS), DynamoDB, OpenSearch
  • Distributed systems: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, ECS, EKS and Kubernetes, microservices, gRPC
  • Practices: REST API design, system design and design reviews, data consistency and idempotency, multi-tenancy and entitlements, on-call, SLOs and alerting, incident response and postmortems, pytest, JUnit, GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • AI and tooling: Cursor, Claude, AGENTS.md, evals, agent skills, WebLLM

Experience

Software Engineer IV

Lyft, Toronto, Ontario|2024 to present

  • -Build the roaming backend behind Lyft's European expansion: ride creation, payment authorization, and scheduled rides across the FREENOW network
  • -Owned the access-control foundation for Lyft Teen ahead of launch in 200+ US markets
  • -Shipped growth and support surfaces for Lyft Silver: invites, gift cards, trusted contacts, and a CMS-backed contextual help API
  • -Rolled out AGENTS.md across ten backend repos and published a before/after eval: three repos failed without it, and one dropped from 30-plus turns to a single-turn answer. Shipped a Cursor/Claude dashboard-migration skill the platform team adopted, and co-built the operational-health dashboard

Software Engineer II

SkyWatch, Ontario|2022 to 2024

  • -Led enterprise org management APIs (orgs, membership, roles, and access) at SkyWatch, a satellite imagery platform used by Microsoft Azure, Al Jazeera, etc., contributing to a 40 percent increase in sales
  • -Modeled enterprise contract terms and usage entitlements so per-customer quotas and permissions were enforced consistently across services
  • -Redesigned multi-provider satellite search to stream results over WebSocket as each provider responds, decoupling pricing and processing from fetch so time-to-first-result tracked the fastest provider; cut backend API latency from 180 ms to 45 ms

Senior Software Engineer · Software Engineer · Edison Engineer

GE Healthcare, Bangalore, India|2017 to 2022

  • -Built event-driven backend services for medical device and imaging workloads on AWS, using SQS and SNS with DynamoDB and OpenSearch
  • -Built and deployed Python and Java microservices on AWS (ECS, EKS) for production healthcare workloads, including the backend for a DICOM medical image viewer
  • -Owned system design end to end: requirements, UML diagrams, API documentation, and Technical Design Reviews with architects across the organization
  • -Built a metrics visualization dashboard backend in Java and Spring Boot; wrote pytest and JUnit coverage; mentored junior engineers

Education

  • Master of Science, Software Engineering|Pennsylvania State University
  • Bachelor of Engineering|University of Pune, Pune, India