Field notes · Feb 2024 – Apr 2026
Zafin
Technical Consultant / Senior Software Engineer
Highlights
- Led a team of 8 engineers: planned epics, shipped hotfixes, delegated work.
- Designed REST APIs for program enrollment and reward preferences.
- Integrated over Kafka (real-time streaming), REST, and SFTP file exchange.
- Tripled throughput by splitting the system into decoupled, asynchronous processing stages.
- Built idempotent, fault-tolerant batch services and supported production to SLA.
- Ran 40+ engineering interviews and helped with onboarding.