Shahid Raza
Software Engineer
Core development
About
Shahid leads core development at Binary Semaphore. He spends most of his time on the essential complexity of a problem: modeling it well, drawing clean boundaries, and turning that into software that holds up.
He works mostly in Go, with a soft spot for tools that run on your own machine and the Unix philosophy. inode, the studio's CLI knowledge base, started as one of his side projects and became the team's main focus.
Experience
Software Engineer
Jun 2026 - PresentSkillSnap Learning
Founding engineer working across product strategy, architecture, and full-stack development. Partners with leadership to define the product and make the technical calls behind it, taking features from idea to production.
Full Stack Developer
Nov 2025 - May 2026NewAgeSys Solutions
Built across frontend, backend, and databases to ship reliable, scalable products.
Software Developer
Apr 2024 - Oct 2025TechwareLab
Designed and built scalable backend services, mostly in Node.js and TypeScript.
Junior Software Developer
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024TechwareLab
Worked across the backend, learning to write code that holds up in production.
Projects
inode
A CLI knowledge base in Go. Save anything from the terminal, retrieve it later in plain English. End-to-end RAG pipeline over a pluggable adapter architecture: SQLite + sqlite-vec by default, Postgres + pgvector as a zero-CGO alternative, with swappable embedding and LLM providers. Encrypted at rest, and it exposes a read-only MCP server so AI clients can query it.
notchify
A macOS developer toolbox that lives in the camera notch: a file shelf, clipboard history, a color picker, and port tools. Swift, AppKit, SwiftUI.
Urban Waddle
A Go backend service handling authentication, products, and orders over a REST API.
Certifications
- Go for Developers: Practical Techniques for Effective Coding · LinkedIn · 2025
- Learning Go · LinkedIn · 2025
- Backend Engineering Launchpad · Airtribe · 2024
- Introduction to Back-End Development · Meta · 2022
- Spring Framework for Beginners with Spring Boot · Udemy · 2022
- Introduction to Cloud Computing · IBM · 2022
- NDG Linux Essentials · Cisco Networking Academy · 2022
Focus areas
- Go
- Node.js
- Next.js
- Microservices
- REST & GraphQL APIs
- PostgreSQL
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- System design