Abdul Samad Irfan

Integrated newly acquired Khoros platform into Trilogy infrastructure by rolling out standardized CI/CD pipeline templates, build conventions, and deployment runbooks; eliminated Twitter/X integrations across four product lines by updating 20+ UI repositories and automating multi-terabyte data purges across MySQL/Aurora, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch with zero downtime; reduced annual AWS spend by $358K+ across 44 accounts and 3 regions; improved fleet reliability and capacity planning by right-sizing 485 application servers; participated in hackathons to speed code reviews and debugging with AI-assisted workflows across the Khoros platform.

Reduced manual upgrade effort by 80% by building automations and modernizing 150+ backend microservices from .NET Framework 4.5.2 to .NET 8; improved API performance by 58% migrating 45+ WCF services to ASP.NET Web API and introducing MessagePack while preserving JSON compatibility; enabled scalable real-time notifications and market data feeds by replacing WCF duplex communication with Kafka eventing; strengthened authentication and authorization by implementing enterprise SSO and RBAC using PingFederate and Azure Entra ID; increased release reliability by building and maintaining TeamCity CI/CD pipelines for multi-targeting .NET projects; implemented a rollback-safe client with Web API fallback to WCF to enable incremental releases; improved UX by converting blocking service calls to async patterns to reduce UI latency during high-volume trading.

Created 15+ top-selling interactive programming projects (C#, Java, Python) covering OOP/OOD, Algorithms, and Design Patterns; built Docker-based cloud labs for 10+ stacks (including .NET, Django, MERN/MEAN, MongoDB, PostgreSQL); improved platform automation by containerizing lab environments with Docker and automating GitHub checkout, image builds, and lab deployments via CI/CD pipelines.