Ibrar Arshad

Site Reliability Engineer at Scalable Capital GmbH

Responsible for day-to-day running of AWS infrastructure, provisioning new infrastructure, and providing reusable components for the application backends.

Founder at Self-initiated venture (Fitness / Longevity)

Developed a subscription-based model to offer advanced fitness tests through a partner network; conceived a concept to combine wearables and test data into AI-driven personalized fitness insights; built a working prototype app and landing page, conducted A/B tests and ICP interviews.

Senior Software Engineer at ParkDepot / Wemolo GmbH

Developed the AWS-based platform for parking-lot management. Implemented an MSK-based Kafka cluster with optimized producers/consumers, autoscaling, and ELK-based monitoring; designed an MQTT-to-Kafka ingestion microservice with SQS backup and throughput testing; wrote unit/integration tests; created health checks and Kibana dashboards; implemented Terraform-based IaC for AWS resources; built serverless APIs with AWS Lambda and Hasura actions; optimized data access by replacing GraphQL with direct SQL; containerized Python microservices; built GitLab pipelines; created a Python tool to manage Kafka topics/ACLs integrated into CI/CD.

Senior Software Engineer at Arculus GmbH

Developed the AWS-based backend for Arculus' fleet-management solution. Implemented REST APIs on ECS with ALB; onboarded IoT devices to ECS via AWS IoT; used AWS MSK for Kafka-based inter-service communication; integrated MQTT between IoT devices, AWS IoT, and ECS; implemented IaC with Python Pulumi; migrated data access performance by replacing GraphQL with direct SQL; Dockerized Python microservices; set up GitLab pipelines; built a Kafka configuration tool.

Software Engineer at Jungle RoboFacturing

Developed the backend of a SaaS platform using Python, AWS Serverless, GitLab, Terraform, PostgreSQL, and other AWS services. Took end-to-end ownership of API development, business logic, testing, CI pipeline creation, and deployments.

Working Student Software Engineer at Motus GmbH

Developed a configurable chatbot using Rasa, Django, and PostgreSQL; led the design and development of a data-driven sales insight solution on AWS using Python, S3, Lambda, Glue, DynamoDB, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD; gathered requirements, designed the AWS architecture, implemented algorithms, and integrated insights into Salesforce backend.

Cohort Member at Entrepreneur First

Ideated, researched, and validated a product idea in the SEO space; built a business model, prototype, obtained customers, and pitched the product to investors.

Working Student Software Engineer at Clyso GmbH

Designed and developed a service to introduce multi-cloud functionality, enabling customers to provision resources on heterogeneous cloud backends. Used Docker, Flask, uWSGI, Celery, Go (for a custom Terraform provider), etcd, and Kafka.