Saeed Zarinfam
Consultant Software Engineer at Zettle by PayPal
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolSaeed Zarinfam is a consultant software engineer based in Stockholm with 13+ years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native backend systems using Java, Scala, Kotlin and Go. He repeatedly delivers mission-critical microservices and reactive architectures for fintech and media clients (Klarna, Zettle/PayPal, Tink, Warner Bros. Discovery), leveraging Spring Boot/WebFlux, Akka, Kafka, Kubernetes and observability stacks. Comfortable across AWS and GCP, he also applies modern ML/LLM tooling (Spring AI, RAG, pgvector, OpenAI/Ollama) to practical backend problems. Beyond coding, he has led and grown engineering teams, run technical interviews and taught workshops, blending hiring insight with hands-on mentorship. An active technical writer and lifelong learner, he translates deep systems experience into clear articles and training, making complex distributed-system patterns accessible. A less obvious strength is his track record of moving between startups and large enterprises, adapting fast while keeping production reliability front and center.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Software, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Software at Tabarestan Institute of Higher Education
Persian, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (161)
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Github contributions (5)
zarinfam/play-akka-cluster-pub-sub
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
play-frameworkscalematterjava-appakka
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