bilal@dev:~$ whoami
Bilal Ahmed
cat about.md
Six years building backends for payments and logistics companies. I care about boring, observable systems: good logs, small services, honest SLAs.
Off the clock I maintain a couple of open-source CLIs and write about Postgres performance.
cat skills.json
Go●●●TypeScript●●●PostgreSQL●●●Kubernetes●●○Redis●●○Kafka●●○Terraform●●○Rust●○○
git log --oneline experience
2023 – now
Senior backend engineer @ Payfast
Ledger service handling 40M transactions/month.
2020 – 2023
Backend engineer @ Swyft Logistics
Routing engine, event pipeline, on-call lead.
2018 – 2020
Software engineer @ Arbisoft
Django services for ed-tech clients.