Adil Shaikh

Senior Software Engineer at Bayer

I build crop planning software used across Bayer, and I ship my own products on the side.

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Crop planning at Bayer

Before a crop goes in the ground, someone plans where, when and how. Each organisation inside Bayer plans differently, with its own windows, checks and approvals.

  • Helped architect and rebuild a major planning application around a rules engine, so each organisation gets the rules it needs without a fork of the code.
  • Own four applications across a large part of the crop planning pipeline: the code, the observability and the maintenance.
  • Sit with the people who plan crops to understand what they need, then turn that into features.

Large scale, few approvals

Planting window
Mar 10 to Apr 20
Seed density
80k per ha
Trial sites
3 per region
Approval chain
1 step
Regional compliance
not applied
One engine, different rules per organisation. Values here are made up; the real ones are internal.
3x
user growth the rebuilt integrations support
50%
faster incident response after new monitoring
40%
less time per deploy after CI/CD work on AWS

Experience

All at Bayer in Warsaw. Intern to senior engineer in under four years.

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    Nov 2025 to now

    Lead technical design for the planning platform and present architecture to senior leadership.

  2. Software Engineer II

    Nov 2024 to Nov 2025

    Built micro frontend modules in React and TypeScript, GraphQL and REST integrations, and mentored junior engineers.

  3. Software Engineer

    Aug 2022 to Nov 2024

    Full stack work on React, Node.js, PostgreSQL and AWS for platforms used by over 1,000 people.

  4. Intern

    Mar 2022 to Aug 2022

    Built a full stack internal app in Node.js. Hired full time after six months.

Projects

word for it

A private mood journal. You check in with a broad feeling and a precise word, then see patterns across weeks and months. I designed, built and shipped it on my own, as an Android app and a web app hosted in the EU.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Capacitor
  • Supabase
wordforit.app
word for it Patterns page in a desktop browser, with mood mix, context and week by week charts
word for it home screen asking how are you right now, with six mood options
Patterns screen with check in counts and a mood mix by percentage
History calendar showing a year of colour coded mood check ins

High fidelity PDF export

Built to help a friend who needed parts of a web page as PDFs. Printing lost the form values and fonts, so this TypeScript library keeps form values, custom fonts, images and selectable text, in the browser or on a server with Puppeteer.

  • TypeScript
  • Puppeteer

Desktop assistant

My bachelor's thesis in AI, from early 2022. A voice assistant in Python that listened, answered from Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha, and opened apps. My first try at building an agent, before AI assistants were everywhere.

  • Python
  • Speech recognition

About

I studied computer science with a focus on AI at Vistula University in Warsaw. Most of my job now is understanding what planners and stakeholders need, then writing the code that makes their work simpler. AI was my major before it was everywhere; now I use it daily at work.

Frontend

React, TypeScript, Next.js, Micro frontends

Backend

Node.js, GraphQL, REST, PostgreSQL, Python

Cloud

AWS ECS and Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Docker

Observability

Datadog, CloudWatch