Asim Aslam
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAsim Aslam is a founder-engineer with 11 years of experience building B2B developer tools, open-source platforms and cloud-native microservices from idea to scale. He started Micro as an open-source project in 2015, grew it into a VC-backed company with enterprise sponsorship, and continues to steward it as a community-led app platform. His background spans SRE and platform work at Google and Hailo—scaling a global microservices estate to 150 services—and early infrastructure ops at BeatThatQuote prior to its acquisition. An active Go contributor, he improved stability and gRPC client ergonomics in the well-known go-micro framework, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and developer UX. Based in the UK with a BEng in computer networks and distributed systems, he combines hands-on backend engineering with entrepreneurial product instincts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Computer networks and distributed systems, Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Computer networks and distributed systems at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (8)
web-framework10
go10
grpc10
network-programming9
distributed-systems9
refactoring8
refactor8
http6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
micro/go-micro
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
A Go microservices framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:102 releases, 40 reviews, 1806 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Asim contributed to the go-micro framework, primarily by adding new features and addressing code style issues. Their commits focused on improving the gRPC client by adding options for specifying stream timeouts. The user also addressed a bug in the proxy by fixing a data race, which improved its stability. Overall, the user appears to have been involved in various aspects of backend development within the go-micro framework.
golangrpcframeworkdistributed-systemsmicroservices
asim/aslam
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Investing in the future
Contributions:19 PRs, 149 pushes, 18 branches in 5 months
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