Shayan Halder

Software Engineer | CS @ UC Irvine

About

I'm a Computer Science student at UC Irvine specializing in backend development and reliability engineering. Previously interned as a Production Engineer as Meta learning how to build reliable and scalable infrastructure.

Experience

    Production Engineers are specialized software engineers that focus on building reliable and scalable infrastructure for all of Meta's services.

  • Developed Python data pipeline to analyze usage data of backend virtual resources, enabling engineering teams to address capacity shortfalls and prevent service disruptions.
  • Achieved 61% faster pipeline execution by implementing parallelization and workload balancing, streamlining smoke testing cycles and enhancing team productivity when making updates to the pipeline.
  • Onboarded 7 backend services into a unified monitoring dashboard, enhancing visibility of capacity risks and validating usage patterns with cross-organizational teams.
  • Implemented linear correlation analysis with Pandas for backend virtual dependencies, enhancing robustness of alerting system to detect capacity issues.
  • Developed full-stack app for SANA, a network alignment algorithm used for biological graph comparisons.
  • Optimized a Node.js command-line pipeline for faster execution of network alignment jobs.
  • Implemented API Key validation middleware on backend to validate job submissions.
  • Automated deployment of backend reverse proxy with bash scripting and Systemd.
  • Collaborated in team of 15 students to plan a mock NASA mission to search the moon’s south pole for ice-water.
  • Designed 11 API endpoints to optimize transmission of image/command data to Mission Control, improving system responsiveness for critical mission tasks.
  • Conducted Failure Mode and Effect Analysis to evaluate 10+ subsystem risks, formulating targeted risk-reduction strategies to prioritize key mission objectives.
  • Completed 12-weeks of structured curriculum covering core SRE concepts, supplemented with events and workshops hosted by leading Meta industry experts.
  • Created an open-source personal portfolio website template using Python, Flask, Jinja, MySQL, Nginx, and unittest.
  • Automated testing and deployment workflows with bash scripting and GitHub Actions CI/CD tools.
  • Implemented monitoring and visualization of CPU/RAM/Disk utilization of Docker containers on VPS with Prometheus and Grafana.

Projects

News Bias Tracker

Full-stack web application to showcase news bias on currently trending topics.
Demo   |   GitHub

Unviersity Degree Planner

Full-stack app to allow students at UC Irvine to plan their course progression in a drag-drop interface with prerequisite enforcement.
Demo   |   GitHub

Image Encrypter

Application to encrypt and decrypt secret messages inside image files.
GitHub

Group Dinner Price Tracker

Frontend web app to track costs owed by each person at a group dinner for group and individual food items.
Demo   |   GitHub

Publications

FrontierScience Bench: Evaluating AI Research Capabilities in LLMs. Proceedings of the ACL REALM Workshop (Research on Agent Language Models) (2025).  Matthew Li, Santiago Torres-Garcia, Shayan Halder, Phani Kuppa, Sean O’Brien, Vasu Sharma, Kevin Zhu, Sunishchal Dev
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