Mustansir Zia

About Mustansir Zia

Premature optimisation is the root of all evil, 97% of the time; Yet we should not pass opportunities in that critical 3%.\"- David Knut\"Good engineers know how to scale, great engineers know when to.\"- Anonymous.\"There\'s no such thing as a 10x engineer, only 5 members of their team that are now a 2x.\"- Anonymous.I was hooked the first time I saw a computer. I have 10 years of experience in writing and designing complex software systems. During these years, I\'ve laid foundations for a strong engineering architecture and culture at the places I\'ve worked in. I\'ve aimed to build products that are robust, real-time, highly available and scalable when they need to be.Me and the teams I\'ve worked with take great pride to have designed systems that catered to millions of users.I absolutely love startups, small teams and a fast paced culture hell bent to create products that want to change a lot of people\'s lives.I still code or ask LLMs to write for me every single day. I absolutely love to devour books over coffee, provide career mentorship, own hard problems and build things for fun. More recently, I\'ve also started to lift weights and care about how the human body works.I\'m an author and lead maintainer of 17 open source projects on GitHub (github.com/MustansirZia).I also happen to be an author of tech related blogs at mustansir.dev. When I get time, I document and live stream myself building stuff on YouTube.(youtube.com/mzm20nine).Apart from this, I also work another full-time shift where I\'m a husband and a father to the world\'s best mom-son duo in the world:)-I\'m proficient in building software in around 9 languages; JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, Java and sometimes in Python, Dart, Kotlin, php or Lua.Database proficiency: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and Neo4j.Backend proficiency: Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, RESTful, GraphQL, WebSockets, Microservices, gRPC.Data proficiency: Spark, Redshift.Platform proficiency: AWS, Linux, Docker, Terraform, Packer. Client side proficiency: React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, React Native, Flutter, Android.Testing proficiency: TDD, Jest, Cypress, Testing Library.Automation proficiency: Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions.Instrumentation proficiency: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK. AI proficiency: LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, PyTorch.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Lead

   Clearglass

   Mar 2024 — Present · London, GB

   ClearGlass is a fintech company that\'s trying to bring transparency in an industry that\'s been plagued by unfair costs. What we do could ultimately result in millions of people getting better returns for their lifetime of savings.At ClearGlass, me and my team spend most of our time authoring and maintaining the product\'s distributed backend which houses critical financial data.

Education

• University of Kashmir

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers

  2011 — 2015

• Burn Hall School

  Higher Secondary, Science and Mathematics

  1998 — 2010

Skills

• Apache Cordova
• Json
• Css
• Typescript
• Jsp
• Influxdb
• Microservices
• Tomcat
• Graphql
• Functional Programming
• Basic Html
• Java
• Arduino
• Devops
• Node.js
• Express.js
• Mysql
• Customer Service
• Java Concurrency
• Socket Programming
• Kotlin
• Redis
• Ajax
• Android Development
• Javase
• Indesign
• Grpc
• Neo4j
• Gulp.js
• Orm Tools
• Xml
• Golang
• Apollo
• Nginx
• C
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Nosql
• Restful Architecture
• Redux
• Docker