Syed
Liyakhath

A smartwatch OS, from scratch, in Rust

better-os

A lightweight, bare-metal smartwatch operating system — scheduler, display driver, and compositor written from the ground up, running on real hardware.

A Discord bot with real access control

shuri

A broad-utility Discord bot built around a highly customizable, role-based command authorization system — not just commands, but who's allowed to run them.

Backend microservices for the airline's loyalty system — nominees, cabin upgrades, vouchers — plus the real-time order pipelines that keep partner integrations honest.

• Built Spring Boot / Azure microservices for Nominees, Cabin Upgrades, and Vouchers on the loyalty platform
• Ran real-time order pipelines on Azure Service Bus and Spring Cloud Stream handling 100k+ daily orders, including partner integrations like Zomato
• Cut execution time 40% with multithreading and async work
• Built end-to-end API test infrastructure
• Shipped modular JAR libraries that halved time-to-ship
• Resolved CVEs and VAPT security findings

Three years on a middleware orchestration layer for a telecom client — from associate to software engineer, across APIs, migrations, and production firefighting.

• Built 30+ RESTful APIs for a middleware orchestration layer
• Ran order management processing 50k daily orders
• Helped migrate 5 legacy CRM monoliths to AWS ECS Fargate
• Triaged production issues with Splunk, CloudWatch, and ELK
• Automated ops tooling in Python and React.js