Farzin Ahmed
Software Developer II at Wealthsimple
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFarzin Ahmed is a back-end software developer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems and scalable microservices, currently contributing at Wealthsimple in Vancouver. He has deep hands-on experience with Scala and Go services, Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB/MySQL and Redis from multiple roles at Hootsuite where he progressed from co-op to lead developer overseeing auth token lifecycle and team development. Farzin blends technical delivery with people leadership—hiring, mentoring juniors, and running Agile rituals to keep roadmaps on track. His early work spans full-stack web apps and biomedical knowledge graph tooling, reflecting a habit of tackling diverse domains and migrations without downtime. He holds a Computer Science B.A.Sc. from Simon Fraser University and brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and security in production systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Bengali
Github Skills (5)
hootsuite9
expressjs6
nodejs5
css5
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
farzin94/data-structures
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
farzin94/farzin94.github.io
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 10 months
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