Mohammad Yousuf Sarfaraz
Lead Engineer

Building resilient backend platforms that scale.

Lead engineer with 6+ years in high‑performance microservices and distributed systems, delivering scalable platforms and reliable customer experiences.

6.5+ years
Backend experience
20×
Scalability achieved
50%
Telecom cost reduction
What I’m great at
  • Scalable microservices & distributed systems
  • System re‑architecture & performance tuning
  • Reliability engineering & incident reduction
  • Real‑time insights & observability

About

I’m a backend engineer and lead engineer who cares about clarity, correctness, and real‑world operability. I build services that are easy to reason about, easy to monitor, and proven at scale.

I specialize in microservices, distributed systems, and high‑availability architecture, with measurable outcomes like 20× scalability, 50% telecom cost reduction, and a 30% drop in critical incidents.

Focus areas
Microservices Distributed Systems System Design High Availability Observability
Currently exploring
Event-driven architecture Performance profiling Cost optimization

Skills

Backend
Java Spring Boot Hibernate REST APIs Microservices Kafka
Data & Storage
PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch Citus SQL
Cloud & DevOps
AWS Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Git Linux
Messaging & Reliability
Kafka Observability Alerting SLOs Tracing

Projects

A few highlights from recent work.

Order Management System
Production

Owned and delivered core OMS capabilities supporting high‑volume order flows and downstream integrations.

MicroservicesAPIsReliability
Payouts & Subscriptions Re‑architecture
Production

Re‑architected and rebuilt the payouts and subscription systems for scale, correctness, and operability.

System DesignScalabilityObservability
Observability & Reliability Toolkit
Internal

Dashboards, alerting, and tracing standards to improve MTTR and service health visibility.

PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry

Contact

Want to connect?

Reach out via email or LinkedIn.

Emailyousufsarfaraz484@gmail.com
Phone+91 96671 95457
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/yousufsarfaraz
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