Akhtar Zaman

Backend Engineer AKHTAR ZAMAN Phone: - Email:-Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/akhtarza Location: Dubai, UAE Professional Summary I am a strong decision-maker and a problem solver with more than 5 years of experience in software engineering, working on the large scale distributed systems. I have an experience of working with micro services architecture and have strong understanding of Amazon Web Services, working in an agile environment and also skilled in requirement gathering, technical documentation, and testing. Work Experience SEN IOR SOF TW AR E EN GIN EER II - CAR EEM - JAN 2023 - Present • • • Leading the re-architecting of the orders platform Building new microservices in Go lang using Clean architecture and DDD approach to reduce the system complexity and make it more manageable, extendable, reliable, resilient and scalable Responsible for implementation and on-time delivery SEN IOR SOF TW AR E EN GIN EER I - CAR EEM - DEC 2021 - Present • • • Responsible for leading the groceries domain and mentoring team members Worked on Picker Experience and wrote an RFC to propose improvements to the core orders architecture Ensured system was reliable, resilient, and scalable SOF TW AR E EN GIN EER II - CAR EEM - JULY 2019 - DEC 2021 • • • Led the groceries squad from order experience side Worked with the product team to review PRDs and own the full journey from estimates to production Worked on features like item replacement, schedule delivery, and order tracking. SOF TW AR E EN GIN EER I - CAR EEM - JUNE 2 0 17 - J U N E 2019 I joined care engineering team where we were responsible to create products for our agents to support the disputes raised by our captains and customers. Some of the achievements from that time. • Implemented the Java-based Auditing SDK to be used by any Java application. It was implemented using AOP(Aspect Oriented Programming) and publish the logs to AWS Firehose Stream after processing. It is then available to be analysed in our internal tool on Redash and Kibana, which are reading from AWS S3 and Elastic Search. • Designed and implemented different serverless architectures using AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda Functions and AWS SQS for integrations with our third party tools, e.g. Zendesk. • Developed the custom Maven plugin to run on the specific stage of the cycle and capture all the required information from the compiled classes using Reflection. Skills Languages Java, PHP, Go and python Cloud Amazon Tools & Frameworks Maven, terraform, Jenkins, NewRelic, Zendesk, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Prometheus, Kibana, Argus. Others Redis, Kafka, ElasticSearch AWS Kinesis, SQS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, AWS lambda, Elastic BeanStalk. Education B A C HE LO R S I N C O M P UT E R S C I E N C E - FAST NUCES, Karachi - August 2013 - May 2017 I N TERM EDI ATE I N S CI EN CE - D.J Science College , Karachi - June 2011 - May 2013