Zarif Mahfuz
Software Engineer at Stripe
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolZarif Mahfuz is a full-stack software engineer with six years’ experience specializing in backend systems and developer-facing infrastructure, currently at Stripe after a tenure as a senior engineer at Shopify. He has driven large-scale CI improvements that speed monorepo checkouts to 20 seconds, publish millions of test events per minute, and cut resource usage and queue times significantly—work that directly enabled thousands of engineers to ship with higher confidence. His background includes optimizing metrics cardinality, eliminating massive SQL inefficiencies, and building predictive scaling and fault-tolerant services for high-throughput systems. With a 3.8/4.0 Computer Engineering degree from the University of Alberta, he combines strong academic foundations with practical experience in large distributed systems and developer productivity tooling. An analytical problem-solver, he also has research experience automating reproducible EEG/EMG analysis pipelines, showing an appetite for squeezing performance out of both scientific and production workloads.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering - Software Co-op, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering - Software Co-op, 3.8/4.0 at University of AlbertaGCE Advanced Level, GCE Advanced Level at European Standard School
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Github Skills (32)
oclif9
queue9
distribute9
mruby8
testing8
shopify7
rubygems7
ruby7
cli7
hydrogen7
activerecord6
package-manager6
ruby-on-rails6
package6
packaging6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zarifmahfuz/SmartSC2Bot
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:53 commits in 2 months
CMPUT301F21T23/HabitTracker
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:32 reviews, 99 commits, 22 PRs in 2 months
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