Summary
Victor Hsi is a Lead Software Engineer with 20+ years of hands-on Java design and enterprise application development, currently driving platform work at Zafin after architecting solutions at IBM iX and PNC. He blends technical leadership, team management, and client-facing consulting, with deep experience in service-oriented and event-driven architectures (including Confluent Kafka) and API integrations. Victor has led authentication and cloud migration efforts, built automation tools that saved QA and developer time, and co-founded a startup where he designed a full Ruby on Rails booking product. Known for pragmatic designs and quality-first delivery, he routinely builds PoCs to de-risk vendor integrations and production changes. Based in Toronto and trained in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with a practical focus on operationalizing complex systems. A quietly entrepreneurial engineer, he often surfaces simple automation that becomes widely adopted by teams.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Computer Science, Mathematics Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English