Aftaab Zia is a backend-focused System Development Engineer with 8 years of industry experience, currently contributing to Amazon after building core search and GenAI features at Paytm. He specializes in low-latency backend services, microservice design, and production ML pipelines for intent and entity recognition across multi-language voice and text search. At Paytm he led development of Paytm AI assistant integrations and scalable ranking/prediction workflows, and has hands-on experience moving services from EC2 to Kubernetes. Comfortable across Java Spring Boot and Python ecosystems, he combines model training/inference engineering with pragmatic engineering for high-throughput search systems. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a blend of startup agility and enterprise-grade rigor, and a knack for turning NLP research prototypes into reliable product services.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE
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