About

Muddassir Zafar is an experienced Software Engineer III at Walmart with a passion for solving complex software problems. He has a strong background in computer science and leverages his skills to build products that cater to large and diverse audiences. Muddassir is an expert in distributed systems, local and remote caching, asynchronous systems, Java, microservices, domain-driven design, object-oriented design, event-driven design, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, and Redis. In addition to his technical skills, Muddassir is an avid reader of white papers for different systems, including Uber, DynamoDB, DoorDash, and Facebook TAO Graph. He believes that this gives him an edge while developing complex systems. At Walmart, Muddassir works as a Backend Engineer on the product team to research and implement the needs of Inventory Management. He designs and implements products for high scalability and availability, programming asynchronous microservices to fulfill use-case features in both read and write-heavy environments. He collaborates between business, product, and technology to understand the requirements and come up with implementation options. Prior to joining Walmart, Muddassir worked as a Software Engineer II at Rakuten and a Backend Java Engineer at Cognizant. He has experience working on various projects, including the migration of legacy cronjobs to Java, the development of solutions to take in-house-based monolith applications to cloud-native microservices, and the end-to-end implementation of business requirements. Muddassir holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Future Institute of Engineering and Management and completed his high school education at the Central Board of Secondary Education. He also attended the International Indian School in Riyadh. Overall, Muddassir has 4.7 years of relevant experience and is skilled in software engineering, Spring, Java, backend development, microservices, AWS, JavaScript, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, research science, CI/CD, SQL, Elastic Search, UI, frontend, and infrastructure.