Senior Platform & Software Engineer

Most of my work starts when things stop working. I build systems that actually run in production, not just demos.

I’ve spent the last 9+ years working across backend, infrastructure, and platform engineering. Over time, I’ve naturally moved more towards the platform side, just because that’s where most of the real problems tend to be.

A lot of what I do revolves around distributed systems, deployments, and fixing things when they don’t behave the way they should. I enjoy taking setups that are a bit fragile or chaotic and turning them into something stable and predictable.

Currently working on platform and systems in production environments.

• Platform and internal tooling
• Distributed systems and event-driven pipelines
• Infrastructure and deployment automation
• CI/CD and release workflows
• Observability (metrics, logs, figuring out what broke)
• Backend systems that need to hold up under load

A CLI tool for managing services, logs, and platform operations from a single place.

Built this because jumping between dashboards, scripts, and CI pipelines gets messy fast. The idea was to bring those workflows into one consistent interface.

Built a platform using Proxmox, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, and Traefik to run real services.

Covers:

• container orchestration
• networking and routing
• CI/CD pipelines
• monitoring and alerting

Mostly an attempt to get cloud-like behaviour on infrastructure I control.

Webhook ingestion and async processing system with retries, idempotency, and failure handling.

Designed around real issues like:

• duplicate events
• partial failures
• unreliable external systems

Set up metrics and monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

The goal was simple: when something breaks, I want to know why without digging for hours.

• Systems should be understandable when something goes wrong
• If you can’t debug it at 3am, it’s probably too complex
• Reliability matters more than cleverness
• Good infrastructure makes average teams perform better
• Most problems show up in production, not in design docs

• Website: https://uzairali.dev
• GitHub: https://github.com/uzairali19
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/uzairali19

• Platform & Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Proxmox, Cloudflare, Traefik, AWS, GCP, GitHub Actions
• Backend: Node.js, Go, Python, TypeScript, REST, gRPC
• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Event-driven systems
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
• Frontend: React, Next.js (not my main focus)