Farshad Sahafzadeh
Senior Software Engineer II at Instacart
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFarshad Sahafzadeh is a Senior Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend and distributed systems, currently at Instacart after roles at Intuit and startups. He has repeatedly designed high-performance microservices and platform tooling—delivering sub-20ms p95 responses and 99.9% uptime for customers like IBM, Asus, HubSpot, and Samsung. As an engineering leader he has led more than five teams, coached 20+ junior engineers, and driven large migrations to Kubernetes and gRPC-based service meshes. He combines hands-on library development (queuing, metrics, streams, contract-testing tools) with data-driven performance tuning and deployment practices like blue/green releases and feature flags. Based in Toronto, he pairs backend craftsmanship with a track record of transforming legacy fleets into observable, highly available platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Software Engineering at University of Tehran
Persian, English
Github Skills (22)
database8
visualization8
postgresql7
mysql7
dashboard7
slack7
data-visualization6
data-analysis6
clojure6
sql6
analytics6
react5
fastest5
javascript4
metabase3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firiz/colony
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
firiz/SorceressBot
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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