Welcome to My Blog
Hello I’m Hamed Bahadorzadeh — a Senior Platform and Distributed Systems Engineer based in Almere, Netherlands. After 10+ years building developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and distributed data infrastructure, I decided it was time to put my thoughts somewhere public. What I’ll Write About This blog will focus on topics I work with day-to-day: Platform 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’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. ...