Ishtiaque Zafar is a Founding Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, highly automated systems for startups and scale-ups. He has repeatedly transformed manual operations into scalable products—most recently helping FINN grow its subscriptions from 20K to 100K by rebuilding APIs, customer portals and operational tooling. A proponent of serverless architectures and automation, he combines backend engineering strengths (Node.js/Jira integrations) with product-minded execution to reduce operational toil and accelerate time-to-market. He mentors and speaks in the local developer community, runs trainings, and maintains an active GitHub presence contributing practical integration tooling. Colleagues know him as more than a coder: a founder-type engineer who bridges cross-team collaboration between product, finance and data to deliver measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology
School Science, School Science at Modern School
High School science, High School science at Modern English Academy
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ishtiaque primarily focused on building the backend for a Jira connector, as indicated by the file names and commit messages. They added core functionalities such as permission and permission scheme management, including creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting schemes, alongside the associated permissions. They also incorporated group member retrieval within the API, extended the issue type functionalities, and improved the overall API structure. The user also worked on creating REST API endpoints related to roles, including their creation, retrieval, and management of default actors.
Contributions:6 PRs, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 9 months
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