Irfan Irshad

Software Engineer with 5+ years in backend development and system architecture, specializing in scalable, high-performance solutions. Seeking to lead technical strategy and shape product architecture.

Software Engineer at Infor (2023-08 – Present)

• Achieved 60% growth in pipeline throughput by developing RingMaster, a 5-stage pipeline orchestrator built with Node.js, Python, and Kafka, deployed on AWS EKS with Spark clusters.
• Led the development of MeshFlow, an automation platform with 200+ components, optimizing long-running jobs with failure handling, versioning and real-time status notification emails.
• Mentored, Reviewed code with juniors to optimize ETL tools, addressed SonarCloud issues and ensured coding standards compliance were met.

Software Engineer at SNE Realty (2020-05 – 2023-06)

• Integrated Kafka with Node.js for real-time property listing synchronization, reducing latency and enhancing user experience.
• Developed an Agent Management System using Django, enabling efficient agent tracking, commission calculations, and performance metrics reporting.
• Boosted lead generation by 50% through web scraping and data mastering techniques to ensure data accuracy.

Software Engineer Intern at Al Watad Medical (2019-09 – 2020-03)

• Achieved 40% growth in inventory tracking efficiency by developing a stock management system with Python and Flask.
• Assisted a data migration project involving the transition of 1TB+ legacy medical data to a modern event-driven architecture using Python, Apache Kafka, and PostgreSQL, ensuring zero data loss.
• Automated schema validation for Kafka topics, ensuring compatibility across systems and eliminating 90% of data format-related failures.

Master of Applied Science in Distributed Systems – IIIT (2018 – 2020)

Bachelor of Electronics and Communications – IIIT (2014 – 2018)

Higher Secondary School – Internation Indian School (2012 – 2014)