Summary
Pouyan Shalbafan is a Principal Software Development Engineer based in London with 8 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, microservices-driven systems for banking and enterprise customers. He has progressed from SRE and mobile development to leading cross-functional teams and designing domain-driven architectures using stacks that include Java/Spring, Python, PHP/Laravel, Kotlin, Rust and modern front-end frameworks. At Fanap Soft and Chakray Consulting he delivered large-scale collaboration and banking services in cloud environments, and now drives platform and architecture work at Capital One. Known internally as "just a tech," he pairs pragmatic engineering with leadership—mentoring teams of backend, frontend, mobile and DevOps engineers to ship resilient, production-grade systems. He also brings a rare combination of hands-on CI/CD/SRE experience and a master's in AI, enabling him to bridge infrastructure, automation and data-driven product needs.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Isfahan University of Technology
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Guilan University
English, Persian