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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.