Jhulfikar Ali Ahamed Kabeer

About Jhulfikar Ali Ahamed Kabeer

I solve complex problems at scale - and I\'ve been doing it for over 15 years.**As a Principal Engineer at Comcast, I architect distributed systems that serve 22+ million daily. My approach? Start with the problem, design for resilience, and obsess over the details that matter—performance, observability, and cost efficiency.**Some highlights from my Transformed a critical legacy system into an event-driven architecture that cut costs by 95% while achieving 99.99% availability* Built observability frameworks that reduced MTTR by 65% and slashed operational overhead by 90%* Pioneered Server-Driven UI architecture that accelerated product iteration by 70%* Led Lab Week innovations that generated $10M+ in additional annual revenueMy philosophy is guided by two principles: if a process can be automated, it should be; and if a system can\'t be observed, it can\'t be trusted.I started my career with a mathematics degree, which taught me to think in systems and patterns. That foundation has served me well across everything from modernizing billion-dollar financial audit pipelines at ETS to architecting active-active systems handling 22M+ daily requests.**What energizes me:** Making complex systems simple. Mentoring engineers (I\'ve trained 100+ professionals as a volunteer). Exploring what\'s next—recently diving into LLM integration and agentic AI.**My technical wheelhouse:** AWS cloud architecture, microservices, event-driven design, GraphQL Federation, Terraform/IaC, and comprehensive observability (DataDog, CloudWatch, distributed tracing). I\'m a full stack engineer but particularly passionate about infrastructure that scales gracefully and fails predictably.I believe great technology is built by great teams, and I\'m dedicated to fostering cultures that combine technical rigor with psychological safety.Always open to connecting with fellow engineers, architects, and anyone passionate about building systems that actually work.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Comcast

   May 2022 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

Education

• PSG College of Technology

  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Applied Mathematics

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Eclipse
• Servlets
• Ajax
• Json
• Junit
• Css
• Spring
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Docker
• Pl/Sql
• Ant
• Jboss Application Server
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Cloud Foundry
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Enterprise Solution Design
• Kendoui
• Agile Methodologies
• Python
• Kendo
• Spring Framework
• Web Services
• Maven
• Design Patterns
• Sql
• Jaxb
• Hibernate
• Jpa
• Weblogic
• Shell Scripting
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Software Estimation
• Sdlc
• Xslt
• Tortoise Svn
• Xml
• Javascript
• Struts