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Multi-STACK DEVELOPER

Hi , I'm Zafar.
Welcome. What are building next?

About Me
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A short story about me , my mission, thinking and work.

My primary focus is on creating useful and impactful products that make a real difference in people's lives. Over the course of my career, I gained extensive experience in designing, simplifying, coding and scaling solutions for startups, which has helped me develop a strong track record of success in achieving clients' goals and objectives.

I am always excited to hear about new projects and opportunities, so please don't hesitate to reach out and share your ideas. Let's work together to bring your vision to life!

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Backends

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Mobile Apps

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CMS / RPA

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Clients

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Projects Deployed

From Idea to Launch in 4 weeks

Being involved in multiple zero-to-one startups, i managed to pick up wide skillset, including UX, marketing, operations, costing. All accelerated by using the latest tech. Development is no longer just coding.

Idea to MVP in 1 week.

Idea to product launch in as little as 4 weeks.

  • Frontend, Backend & Devops (Monolithic and Serverlss)
  • Product Management
  • SEO, Security, Monitoring, Testing
  • Customer-Developer Relations
  • Agile, lean and XP methodologies
View Portfolio

Dev Skills

Frontend
100%
Backend
85%
DevOps
95%

Language

English & Malay Native
German Advanced
Japanese Basic (currently in progress)

Education

Fachhochschuele Aachen - Germany

Applied Physics | 2014-2016
  • Material science, Optics, Laser Technologies, Instrument Regulation, Electronics, Electrical, Semiconductor Technologies, Reaction Technology.
  • Minor in Solar Energy Systems

University of Florida

Global Sustainable Energy: Past, Present and Future

Energy consumption patterns including individuals, countries and the entire globe including all sectors of the global economy from fully developed countries to developing nations. New energy source investigated and international solutions analyzed.

Cisco

CCNA v3

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Credential ID CSCO13147239

LearnQuest

Scrum Master Certification (SMC) | June 2022

Credential ID : ZKDLDKHJJP8R

  • Agile Fundamentals
  • Scrum Fundamentals
  • Scrum Master
  • Scrum Product Owner

CBSA

Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect | Feb 2022

AWS

MLOps Engineering | Jan 2024
  • SageMaker
  • Snowflake

Technical Knowledge

Langauges
  • Typescript
  • Python
  • Dart
  • Go
  • Java (basic)
DevOps
  • Nginx
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Pipeline/Actions
  • CircleCI
  • Serverless/CDK
Cloud
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • CodeMagic CI/CD
  • Vercel/Actions
  • Cloudinary, ect2
Frontend
  • VueJS / Nuxt
  • React / Nextjs
  • Vite
  • Svelte
Mobile Apps
  • Flutter
  • Ionic
Backend
  • Nitro(H3)
  • NestJS
  • Directus
  • Laravel
Monitoring
  • GA4 / GTM
  • Luckyorange
  • Logrocket
Design
  • Figma
  • Sketch
AL / ML
  • CF Workers AI
  • Qdrant
  • Vectorize
Search
  • Elasticsearch
  • Meilisearch
  • Algolia
Engineering
  • AutoCAD
  • Siemens NX
  • EAGLE
Others
  • Blender
  • Tuya(IoT)

Work

2023 - Now

Software Engineer

AXA, Japan

  • All things AWS
  • Serverless Architecture
  • Business Tooling and Automation
  • Design System
  • Migrating legacy systems to Serverless/Edge
  • Reduce development time.
  • Leverage LLM for code reviews
  • Develop requirements and code all platforms
  • Candidates Platform
  • Automated CV Scoring system
  • ML-powered recruitment system
  • Low latency Qdrant Hybrid Vector-Keyword search
  • Recruiter Mobile App
  • Company Client Platform
  • Introduce Gamification of platform
  • Security compliance
  • Personally overlook the entire codebase
  • Mentor new developers via pair programming and code reviews.
  • Develop Recruiter scoring system for better pairing.
  • Switching user-facing bare-metal workloads to Edge Computing and Serverless functions.
  • Plan, design and implement a 5 year business plan since the beginning of the company.
  • DB data structure requirement, planning and building.
  • UX design, simplification and adherence. SEO optimizations and analytics.
  • Design and implement end-to-end development flow, including CI/CD and monitoring.
  • Perform stack analysis to reduce running costs and reduce system bloat.
  • Manage development team and implement agile framework
  • Polish initial ideas from directors/investors into working solutions.
  • Promoting a strong end-user feedback loop.
  • Actively automating maintenance and repetitive tasks to free up development time for features.

2020 - 2023

Senior Web Application Developer

KL Wing: Japanese Recruitment Agency | by JobSearchAsia

  • Sole developer handling the entire system from servers, databases, frontend, mail systems, and various custom integrations.
  • Migrating the entire platform from old servers and optimizing for minimal running cost.
  • Patching and upgrading old codebase to latest.
  • Working as a sole developer interacting with the entire Japanese staff and management.
  • Develop Halal Navi business using a technical approach of feedback, analytics, market analysis and removing barriers.
  • Report and discussions directly with a Japanese director on new features and services.
  • Plan and execute scrums to test MVP for planned new services.
  • Remove management bottlenecks and reduce internal issues.
  • Empowering staff with more tools and freedom of action.
  • Review development team application logic and marketing team strategies to ensure a good user experience.
  • Assisting in coding and design of MVPs.
  • Fullstack development

2017 - 2021

Co-Founder

Standard Systems Ventures (software vendor)

  • Co-founded software development startup.
  • Developed for multiple high-profile clients, who became repeat clients.
  • Collaborate with clients to form a solution that pushes the limit of possibilities.
  • Develop logic, plan and code solutions. Support said solution after completion.
  • Worked in a tight multilingual team of japanese, german and chinese speakers.

Portfolio

See what im up to
Flow Tools

React | Nitro | AWS

Seekers Candidate

Nuxt 3 | Directus | Flutter

Halal Navi : Japan Travel Platform

Vue | Django | Kotlin | Swift

Seekers Recruiter

Nuxt | Laravel | React Native

KL Wing

PHP

Payouth - Youth Marketing Platform

Ionic | Firebase

HantarJapan - Forwarding Service

Next | Directus | Firebase

Toaster PC

Custom PC inside a Toaster

TamaTama - Telegram Shopper Bot

NodeJS | Telegram

Fronyx : EV Charging

Penetration Testing

Taberuuu - Japanese Curry (discontinued)

Handlebars | Shopify

Cyber Safe In School : Awareness Contest

Angular 8

3D Modeling : Photorealism

Blender 3D

JustKosme : Beauty Community (sold)

PHP

Natural Prebiotics

Business Advisory | PHP

Get in Touch

Mail Me
hello@zafar.dev
Location
Tokyo, Japan