Software Engineer with experience building reliable backend and distributed systems across different domains. I focus on designing software that behaves predictably under load, failure, and concurrency, and I value clarity, discipline, and correctness over hype.
I come from a high-responsibility operational background and bring that mindset into engineering: systems should be understandable, auditable, and resilient.
-
Backend & Distributed Systems
- Designing services that handle concurrency and partial failure
- Event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing
- Data consistency, idempotency, and replayability
-
System Design & Infrastructure
- API design and service boundaries
- Databases, messaging systems, and caches
- Containerized deployments and CI/CD pipelines
-
Security-Aware Engineering
- Authorization and access-control flows
- Defensive design against stale state and race conditions
- Audit-friendly system behavior
-
Distributed System Prototypes
- Event-based processing pipelines
- State transition modeling
- Failure-mode exploration and mitigation
-
Authorization & Consistency Tooling
- Tools to surface correctness issues caused by caching, delays, or stale state
- Focus on making hidden bugs observable
-
Production Backend Services
- REST and message-driven services
- Database-backed systems with strong data integrity requirements
(Fintech systems are part of my experience, not my entire identity.)
Languages
- Java, C++, Python, TypeScript
Backend & Data
- Spring Boot, Node.js, Django
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Kafka and message-driven systems
Infrastructure
- Docker, GitHub Actions
- Linux-based deployments
- Cloud-hosted services
- Prefer explicit state over hidden mutation
- Make failure modes visible
- Design for long-term maintainability
- Build systems that can be reasoned about by other engineers
- 🌐 Portfolio: https://zeeshan-portfolio.vercel.app
- 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeeshan-ali-89b246193
- 📧 Email: z.shankhan.ali@gmail.com
Open to backend, platform, or systems engineering roles across industries.