Syed Jafri
Software Engineer IV Haskell Engineer at Acima
Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolSyed Jafri is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of full-stack experience and a deep specialty in functional programming, currently working as a Haskell Engineer at Acima while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Vermont. He prefers backend systems and has driven high-impact projects—at Caribou he was the sole backend developer for a lead management app that helped generate over $13M in funded auto refinance loans and led a migration to Hasura that increased lead volume by 30%. Comfortable as a polyglot, Syed has shipped services in Haskell, Scala, Typescript, Ruby, Java, and cloud-native stacks (GCP, Kubernetes, Argo), and he’s built event-sourced systems and integration layers that replaced bespoke CRMs. He has hands-on hiring and technical leadership experience, interviewing 50+ engineers and staffing teams quickly, and he advocates for applying academic rigor—e.g., differential privacy and formal FP techniques—to production systems. Based in Burlington, VT, he blends research-minded problem solving with pragmatic delivery, making him a strong fit for roles at the intersection of distributed systems, privacy, and functional programming.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of VermontThe University of Maryland, College ParkComputer Science, Computer Science at Anne Arundel Community College
English, Urdu, Japanese
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Github Skills (200)
github10
package-management10
multiselect10
testing10
zinc10
fits10
extensible10
rest-api10
haskell10
streaming10
javascript10
graphql-api10
convolutional-neural-networks10
modular10
ng10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Team-Rocket-Coding-Collective/FoodTruckHeroAPI
May 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
psilospore/git-workflow
Aug 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 7 branches in 2 years 9 months
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