Hey, I'm
Zainul Ariffin.

I am always thinking of new ways and ideas to improve existing systems and processes with technology. Building applications and solutions is my favorite hobby. I put in effort daily to constantly improve my skills in order to build better applications.
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Education and Experience
Dec 2023 - Present
Manage 24/7 production reliability through rotating on-call shifts, mitigating alerts and coordinating hotfixes
Embedded with Connectors team to provision infrastructure, cloud resources, and CI/CD pipelines for microservices
Designed automated disaster recovery testing framework using Chaos Toolkit, reducing DR testing time by 70%
Established observability and incident response efficiency with Grafana/Prometheus dashboards and automated alerts
AWSTerraformKubernetesKustomizeGrafanaPrometheusCI/CDArgoCDPythonChaos ToolkitNov 2022 - Nov 2023
Engineered Trust/EnTrust/EnTrust lite platforms on GCC 2.0 for secure data access by researchers
Developed EnTrust lite Ops Portal v2 frontend with NextJS and implemented Role Based Access Control
Led full-scope backend and frontend development, provisioned via Terraform with Python serverless functions
Developed React Electron application for offline handling of large civilian datasets with data anonymization
TerraformTypescriptNextJSPythonAWSLinuxDockerECSReactBachelor in Computing Science
President of SIT Geeks - organized bi-monthly meetups, field trips, and hackathons
Lead of Google Developer Student Club - organized workshops on emerging technologies
Multiple hackathon wins including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places at Glasgow University Tech Society
LeadershipEvent ManagementCommunity BuildingPublic Speaking2013 - 2017
Diploma in Information Technology
Won 2nd Prize for IDA Data Driven Challenge 2016
Awarded Best Innovative Project (Tertiary) for SITF 2016
JavaC#SQLHTMLCSSJavascriptAndroid
Skills
Certification
Awards
My Projects
Grade Calculator
A versatile GPA calculator for various school grading systems helping 12K+ students monthly.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 12000 users
DISC-based Personality Test
Interactive 28-question DISC personality test with comprehensive breakdowns for personal development.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 0 users
SheetsDB
Transform Google Sheets into JSON APIs effortlessly for free. Featured as #22 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 90 users
RSVP List
Create beautiful, mobile-friendly RSVP forms in seconds. Free forever, no signup required.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 0 users
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Let's Connect
Have a project in mind, want to collaborate, or just want to say hello? I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
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