Zafar Ansari
Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolZafar Ansari is a senior computer scientist with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering large-scale, high-throughput backend systems across fintech, e‑commerce and cloud SaaS products. He has led architecture and delivery at Paytm and Uber, built FEDRAMP-compliant identity and provisioning pipelines at Adobe, and shipped resilient microservices and event-driven systems that handled millions of records and stringent zero-downtime constraints. Comfortable coding in Java, Go and cloud-native stacks, he has solved performance and security challenges—from encrypting 50M PII records in place to optimizing Kubernetes-hosted services for high throughput. A pragmatic tech lead and mentor, Zafar pairs deep systems knowledge with product-facing responsibility and on-call ownership. Unusually for an engineer of his scale, he also studied creative writing at Oxford, bringing an uncommon communication edge to technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering at IEC College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India10+2 (ISC Board) Mathematics + Science + Computer Science, 10+2 (ISC Board) Mathematics + Science + Computer Science at Dr Virendra Swarup Education Centre, Kanpur, IndiaMaster of Technology (M.Tech.) Information & Communication Technology, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Information & Communication Technology at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, IndiaWriting Fiction for Young Adults, Writing Fiction for Young Adults at University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education
English, Urdu, Hindi, German
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Github Skills (11)
java9
sdk9
media9
azure8
azure-functions8
azure-services8
azure-sdk7
microsoft6
git-clone1
mozilla1
cli1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zafar142007/Controlio
Aug 2016 - Sep 2019
This is a remote control android app that can control your computer via customizable speech/touch input.
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
remote-controltouchandroidandroid-appcustomizable
zafar142007/Gesture-Recognition-for-Indian-Sign-Language-using-Kinect
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
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