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Hakim is a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon with more than 15 years of experience at AWS. He was a founding member of three publicly launched AWS products and has mentored more than 15 Amazon engineers. He helps software engineers improve code and operational quality, increase their influence, and grow into higher-level roles.
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I am a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience working at AWS. I have been a founding member of three publicly launched products at AWS.
I am passionate about building products iteratively at scale with a high bar on operations. My expertise is building distributed systems, APIs using micro services built on AWS - Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, CloudWatch to name a few. I have experience building both customer facing services and large scale backend infrastructure services using Java.
Along with building products, I am passionate about mentoring. I have mentored 15+ engineers at Amazon from SDE 1s to 3s helping them to get promoted at various levels.
I can help answers questions regarding how to influence more, code with higher quality, do operations with higher quality and how to grow your career while doing all this.
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You can read my blogs on https://medium.com/@hhanif .
4 out of 5 stars
Hakim is knowledgeable and gives clear, easy-to-understand explanations — especially on topics like AWS fundamentals and Fargate. He breaks down complex topics in a way that's approachable and practical. A solid mentor to learn from.
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You tell Hakim your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.
You meet within days. Hakim reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.
You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.
Hakim Hanif
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
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One-off sessions with Hakim
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Your resume often decides whether you get the interview or get overlooked. This MentorCruise session is designed to help you strengthen your resume so it …
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We'll meet for a quick call (usually under 30 minutes) where we:
- Break the ice and introduce ourselves
- Discuss your goals and how I can support you
- Coordinate logistics like time zones, meeting frequency, and communication methods
