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Helin Ahmad

Senior Backend Engineer

Distributed systems engineer — queues, consistency and clean domain models.

📍 Berlin, Germany

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About

About

I spent the last seven years scaling event-driven systems in Go and Node. Currently deep in stream processing and making on-call quiet again.

Scaled to 40k req/s
Led a team of 6
Speaker at GoDays
Career

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

Vantage Data

2021-04 — Present
  • Scaled the core event pipeline to sustain 40k req/s ingest
  • Led a team of 6 backend engineers across two time zones

Backend Engineer

Kernel Systems

2017-06 — 2021-03
  • Migrated a monolith to event-driven microservices on Kafka
Selected work

Projects

Selected work

Streamline

Featured

Exactly-once event pipeline processing 1B+ events/day on Kafka.

GoKafka

Tenantly

Multi-tenant authorization service with sub-ms policy checks.

Node.jsRedis

pg-migrate-safe

Zero-downtime Postgres migration toolkit used by 200+ teams.

PostgreSQLOSS
Toolkit

Skills

GoNode.jsKafkaPostgreSQLKubernetes
Education

Education

T

B.Sc. Computer Science

TU Berlin

2013 — 2017
Contact

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helin@example.com