[{"content":"Hello I\u0026rsquo;m Hamed Bahadorzadeh — a Senior Platform and Distributed Systems Engineer based in Almere, Netherlands.\nAfter 10+ years building developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and distributed data infrastructure, I decided it was time to put my thoughts somewhere public.\nWhat I\u0026rsquo;ll Write About This blog will focus on topics I work with day-to-day:\nPlatform Engineering — internal developer platforms, Kubernetes controllers, CI/CD systems at scale Distributed Systems — Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, event-driven architectures Go — practical patterns for building platform tooling and Kubernetes operators AI in Engineering — using LLMs to augment developer workflows (based on real production experience) Operational lessons — things I\u0026rsquo;ve learned running systems at high throughput and strict SLAs Background My current role at Flow Traders involves maintaining a platform that supports 10,000+ CI/CD pipelines across multiple language ecosystems and building AI-powered tools that make engineers more productive. Before that, I led DevOps for ~200 microservices at Kian Digital and built a SIEM platform processing 100,000 security events per second at Amnafzar.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll be writing about real problems I\u0026rsquo;ve solved and patterns that have worked (and some that haven\u0026rsquo;t).\nFeel free to reach out via LinkedIn or email.\n","permalink":"https://hbahadorzadeh.github.io/posts/welcome-to-my-blog/","summary":"\u003ch2 id=\"hello\"\u003eHello\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m Hamed Bahadorzadeh — a Senior Platform and Distributed Systems Engineer based in Almere, Netherlands.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter 10+ years building developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and distributed data infrastructure, I decided it was time to put my thoughts somewhere public.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"what-ill-write-about\"\u003eWhat I\u0026rsquo;ll Write About\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis blog will focus on topics I work with day-to-day:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlatform Engineering\u003c/strong\u003e — internal developer platforms, Kubernetes controllers, CI/CD systems at scale\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDistributed Systems\u003c/strong\u003e — Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, event-driven architectures\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGo\u003c/strong\u003e — practical patterns for building platform tooling and Kubernetes operators\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAI in Engineering\u003c/strong\u003e — using LLMs to augment developer workflows (based on real production experience)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOperational lessons\u003c/strong\u003e — things I\u0026rsquo;ve learned running systems at high throughput and strict SLAs\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"background\"\u003eBackground\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy current role at Flow Traders involves maintaining a platform that supports 10,000+ CI/CD pipelines across multiple language ecosystems and building AI-powered tools that make engineers more productive. Before that, I led DevOps for ~200 microservices at Kian Digital and built a SIEM platform processing 100,000 security events per second at Amnafzar.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Welcome to My Blog"},{"content":"Summary Senior Platform and Distributed Systems Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing developer platforms and high-scale backend systems. Expertise in CI/CD ecosystems, Kubernetes platforms, and distributed data processing systems operating under strict reliability and performance SLAs.\nContact Location Almere, Netherlands Email h.bahadorzadeh@gmail.com Phone +31 6 38968539 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/hbahadorzadeh GitHub github.com/hbahadorzadeh Education Bachelor of Computer Software Engineering Islamic Azad University\n","permalink":"https://hbahadorzadeh.github.io/about/","summary":"Senior Platform and Distributed Systems Engineer","title":"About"},{"content":"Flow Traders Build Engineer — Developer Platform May 2022 – Present | Amsterdam, Netherlands\nInternal developer platform engineering at a high-frequency trading firm:\nDesigned and maintained internal developer platform tooling supporting 10,000+ CI/CD pipelines across JVM, Python, Go, Rust, and C++ projects Built an AI-powered engineering assistant integrating Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo to accelerate developer workflows Implemented a Kubernetes controller in Go for dynamic CI agent scaling, reducing idle compute cost while maintaining pipeline throughput under burst load Kian Digital DevOps Technical Lead / Head of DevOps March 2020 – April 2022\nTechnical leadership for a large-scale microservices organization:\nLed DevOps strategy and execution for ~200 microservices across multiple product lines Drove migration of CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitLab CI, improving pipeline reliability and developer experience Architected and operated a CDN platform handling 50 Gbps with approximately 300,000 concurrent viewers during peak streaming events Sadad Informatics Cloud Developer / DevOps Engineer March 2019 – August 2020\nDesigned and operated OpenStack private cloud infrastructure for a financial technology organization Implemented infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning workflows for cloud-native application deployments Contributed upstream fixes to OpenStack components Amnafzar Co. Senior Software Developer August 2015 – March 2019\nDistributed systems engineering for a security intelligence platform:\nDesigned and built a SIEM platform ingesting ~100,000 security events per second with zero data loss guarantees Architected the distributed data pipeline using Apache Kafka (buffering), Elasticsearch (sharded storage), and Apache Spark (distributed processing) Optimized ingestion, hashing, and indexing performance through horizontal scaling, bulk indexing strategies, and system-level tuning to eliminate CPU and I/O bottlenecks Responsible for performance tuning, fault tolerance design, and operational SLA compliance Samayesh Full Stack Developer August 2012 – August 2015\nDeveloped datacenter monitoring and management systems using Python, PHP, ExtJS, and jQuery Built real-time dashboards and alerting systems for datacenter operations teams ","permalink":"https://hbahadorzadeh.github.io/experience/","summary":"Professional work history","title":"Experience"},{"content":"Platform Engineering Kubernetes — cluster operations, custom controllers (Go), RBAC, network policies, Helm CI/CD — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines Developer Platforms — internal tooling, self-service infrastructure, pipeline frameworks at scale (10,000+ pipelines) Container Ecosystem — Docker, containerd, OCI image builds, multi-stage Dockerfiles Cloud \u0026amp; Infrastructure OpenStack — private cloud administration, compute, storage, networking Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, Ansible, AWX CDN \u0026amp; Networking — CDN architecture, high-throughput traffic management (50 Gbps+) Linux — system administration, kernel tuning, performance profiling Distributed Systems Message Streaming — Apache Kafka (design, operations, performance tuning) Search \u0026amp; Analytics — Elasticsearch (cluster design, index management, query optimization) Batch \u0026amp; Stream Processing — Apache Spark High-Throughput Systems — event ingestion at 100,000+ events/second Programming Languages Language Level Go Production — Kubernetes controllers, platform tooling Python Production — automation, data pipelines, monitoring Java / JVM Proficient — CI/CD tooling, JVM ecosystem Rust Working knowledge C++ Working knowledge PHP Legacy experience Observability \u0026amp; Security Monitoring — Prometheus, Grafana, alerting pipeline design Logging — ELK/EFK stack, structured logging practices Security — SIEM platform design, security event processing at enterprise scale AI \u0026amp; Tooling Integration LLM-powered developer tools integrating Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo Internal chatbot and automation assistant development using Python ","permalink":"https://hbahadorzadeh.github.io/skills/","summary":"Technical skills and competencies","title":"Skills"}]