Syed Murtza is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lahore with over a decade of hands-on experience designing low-latency, distributed backends and scaling NoSQL datastores like Cassandra and ScyllaDB. He specializes in building async-first, Rust-based microservices for real-time applications and has a track record of driving measurable performance gains—often cutting response times by tens of percent while improving reliability. His background spans startups, telecoms, and data-intensive businesses, and he has led cloud-native messaging platforms and real-time mobile APIs serving tens of thousands of concurrent users. Beyond Rust, he brings practical expertise in Elixir/OTP, Ruby, Postgres, Redis, and messaging systems, enabling pragmatic modernization of legacy services. Syed pairs architecture and implementation skills with mentoring and technical leadership, offering contract work, audits, and greenfield builds focused on correctness and long-term maintainability. An early Java-certified engineer who transitioned from telecom operations into systems engineering, he combines operational discipline with deep performance-first engineering.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
SUN Certified Java Programmer, Computer Science, A, SUN Certified Java Programmer, Computer Science, A at University of Indianapolis
Intermediate, Information Technology, Intermediate, Information Technology at COMSIT
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Syed Murtza - Senior Software Engineer at TAUSPACE