Abdul Hameed Mohammed
Software Engineer 2 at 7-11

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Abdul Hameed Mohammed is a cloud and edge technology engineer whose decade-long career has focused on the systems that sit closest to real-world operations: IoT device fleets, real-time data integration, and security-forward cloud services. His work consistently operates at the intersection of three hard constraints—scale, latency, and trust—where platforms must ingest high-volume sensor and transactional signals, convert them into actionable outcomes, and do so with strong security controls and production reliability.
Across enterprise environments, Mohammed has developed deep expertise in cloud-native backend engineering, distributed data pipelines, and operational automation. His technical footprint spans full-stack development, secure microservices design, real-time messaging, and the integration patterns needed to connect cloud systems to in-store and edge devices. A recurring theme in his work is eliminating operational friction: replacing manual procedures with automated orchestration that shortens time-to-onboard, reduces downtime, and improves decision speed.
At 7-Eleven, Mohammed contributed to multiple initiatives that modernized store operations through IoT and real-time services. As a backend engineering lead for the 7IoT Digital Operations Platform, he architected a modular backend capable of processing equipment sensor data across 50+ stores, enabling equipment monitoring and proactive operational management. A key differentiator of his design was reducing device onboarding from weeks to a single day by simplifying integration patterns and introducing scalable service boundaries. He also implemented security controls—including encrypted pipelines and multi-factor authentication—to protect device interactions and data flows, and his work helped reduce truck rollouts and equipment downtime, generating large-scale operational savings.
He also built backend services for 7-Eleven’s Digital Price Tag system, enabling real-time price updates and dynamic promotions through secure, highly available communication between cloud services and in-store IoT devices. By implementing efficient RESTful APIs and high-throughput data flows, he helped replace manual, static pricing processes with a digitally controlled, automated pricing infrastructure—improving pricing accuracy, promotional consistency, and store-level operational efficiency.
Within 7-Eleven R&D, Mohammed worked on backend systems supporting cashless store initiatives—next-generation retail experiences dependent on secure microservices and real-time operational intelligence. He developed Spring Boot services with OAuth-based authentication, integrated incident automation through ServiceNow, and built real-time communication workflows using Twilio for SMS/MMS. He also designed for fast product lookup and responsive operations by integrating MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and AWS Lambda-based services—demonstrating competence in distributed system composition where performance and reliability must coexist with security and observability.
Earlier in his career, Mohammed built financial and activation systems where correctness and compliance are as critical as speed. At SmartWorks, he developed backend services for tax calculation, contract processing, and high-volume gift service activation using distributed messaging (IBM MQ/JMS) and service orchestration patterns. At XtreamIT, he contributed to a multi-system tax calculation engine supporting multi-currency and multi-entity processing, implementing hierarchy-driven logic and optimizing data operations using Spring Boot, Scala/Play, and relational databases. In an earlier role at Innovative Online Solutions, he helped establish secure REST API and microservices practices using Spring Security and standardized design patterns—creating reusable components that improved maintainability and accelerated future delivery.
Across these projects, Mohammed’s technical identity is clear: he builds secure, cloud-native systems that integrate edge and enterprise realities, reduce operational toil, and deliver measurable business outcomes through automation and reliable real-time data processing.