Sarmad Sangi is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience building high-performance web and developer platform solutions, currently driving Dev Platform efforts at Zendesk. He specializes in modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks, React, GraphQL, serverless/AWS architectures, and CI/CD, with a track record of migrating legacy systems to scalable SPAs and cloud-native platforms. His career spans leadership roles from lead frontend engineer to co-founder, where he combined product thinking with hands-on engineering to re-architect front-ends and improve performance at scale. Known for hiring and mentoring engineers, he also shapes hiring processes and developer workflows to boost team delivery. Beyond coding, he has practical DevOps experience—migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes and introducing CI/CD pipelines—which informs his platform-first approach. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic: he prefers simple, high-performance solutions that are easy to maintain and scale.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
St Paul's High School
Bachelors of Computer Science, Web Systems/Application Programming, Bachelors of Computer Science, Web Systems/Application Programming at RMIT University
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