Farhan Zaidi

I have used Python's Tornado and Twisted libraries in one of my past projects. Currently, I am evaluating Python based Microservices for a client's API middleware solution, part of which requires advanced Analytics. The Analytics part shall be done in Python using Pandas, Numpy and other related Python libraries. Currently also working as part of a highly talented team on a Machine Learning based solution for a large Beverage company's Supply Chain optimization problem. I provide my software architecture, design and development expertise and other team members provide their modeling and statistical skills and background. I have thoroughly used Python Machine Learning and Data Analysis libraries including Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn and several others. The project uses MongoDB for storage.

Have worked in recent past as a chief architect of a Node.js based Middleware platform for Telecommunications domain. As part of the project, I designed and successfully delivered a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) based on Node.js and C. It was a large project that spanned more than a year and I was responsible for architecture, design and implementation with a team of 8 developers and QA Engineers. The platform implemented several Telecommunication protocols and interfaces for Mobile Financial Services. It was based on Microservices architecture with a home-grown high speed, asynchronous messaging API. The scripting for financial services was done in JavaScript on Node.js and the core was written in C for high performance. The platform is in active production use in a large Telecom corporation in East Africa and serves more than 5 million transactions per day. Recently completed another Node.js project for a large wholesale Voice Over IP marketplace in Europe. The project required extremely high speed data handling for Voice Over IP Route Calculations for Session Border Controllers (SBC), based on multiple constraints and factors in a dynamic environment. I architected, designed and delivered the project with a core team of developers. Redis was used for high speed in-memory processing of data. Node.js based Micro-services architecture was used with REST-FULL API exposition to external clients.

I have over 25 years of experience in Software design and development. I have an MS in Computer Science from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and have worked for several years for Silicon Valley companies, both startups and large companies. I have used algorithms and data structures heavily in my work throughout and understand the trade-offs involved in balancing performance with complexity and when to use which techniques for scaling and performance under given constraints.