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2024 — Present
Senior Backend Engineer
Salla · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
De facto Tech Lead — driving system design and architectural decisions across the platform's core services.
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Backend systems,
built to last
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean...” — Sir Isaac Newton
5+ yrs
Building backends
30+
Microservices in prod
Billions
Events / week
99%
Production uptime
§ 02 — About
Name —
Muzaffar Shaikh
Title —
Senior Backend Engineer
Focus —
Distributed systems
Event driven architecture
Microservices
Message Brokers
Container Orchestration
Event driven architecture
Microservices
Message Brokers
Container Orchestration
Qualifications —
M.Sc. Information Technology (IT)
B.Sc. Computer Science (CS)
B.Sc. Computer Science (CS)
Since —
2016
I build the boring
parts very well.
5+ years of writing servers and microservices that shouldn't fall over. I care about clear data contracts, observable failure modes, and letting the next engineer sleep through the night.
I prefer small, legible services over clever abstractions, postgres over magic, and shipping the imperfect thing on Tuesday instead of the perfect thing in November.
Most of my work lives behind someone else's polished UI — payment rails, real-time pipelines, and the quiet plumbing that turns messy requirements into predictable throughput.
Outside work, I'm a cinephile and motorcyclist — though if I'm being honest, a fair chunk of my time goes to watching cats do things on Instagram.
Architecture, system design, and the hard trade-offs come from my head — the data model, the failure modes, the long-tail edge cases, the way the pieces have to fit together. That foundation is mine. AI sits in the layer below it: Claude Code, Copilot, and a small zoo of agents I spawn for codegen, refactors, spec-to-implementation passes, and the dull parts I'd rather not type. I treat them like capable juniors — useful, fast, occasionally wrong, always reviewed. The blueprint is me; the polish is them.
TypeScript / Node.js Core
Python Data
Postgres / D1 / DynamoDB Primary
Kafka / Redis Streams
Kubernetes / Cloudflare / AWS Ops
REST / Webhooks / WebSockets APIs
§ 03 — Experience
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2021 — 2024
Software Engineer
Creative Capsule · Goa, India
Built the backend that keeps orders moving — microservices, logistics scheduling, and merchant integrations with Fortune 500 partners.
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Salla
App Functions
App Functions let developers hook custom logic directly into live merchant and customer/store events — serverless, event-driven, and zero infrastructure to manage.
2025
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Salla
Report Builder
Powerful feature in the Salla Partners Portal that enables developers to build custom analytical reports to be rendered and displayed on the Salla store dashboard.
2026
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Enterprise
Bungii Enterprise
Bungii's enterprise layer — APIs and webhooks that let logistics partners plug directly into Bungii's on-demand, big and bulky delivery network.
2024
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Salla
Merchant Dashboard APIs
A suite of production backend APIs powering the Salla merchant dashboard — Navigations, Metafilter components, Favorites filters, the package-to-CDN resolver, and the caching layer beneath them.
2022 — Present
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Personal
Personal Portfolio
This site. A hand-built, theme-able portfolio at mzfrshk.dev — seven moods, one engineer, zero frameworks.
2026
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§ 05 — Skills & Stack
§ 06 — Contact
Problem solve?
Me say good.You send note. Me reply fast.
I work full-time, so availability is limited — weekends work best with a heads-up. Got something worth discussing? Send a note; I reply within 48h.