Nawaz Pasha Imtiyaz

Microservices Design & Development:

• Designing and developing modular, scalable, and independent microservices, knowledge of 12-factor app principles and expertise in decomposing monolith applications into microservices.

Communication Between Microservices:

• RESTful APIs for synchronous communication, Message Brokers for Implementing event-driven architectures using Kafka and RabbitMQ and gRPC/GraphQL for efficient communication in some scenarios.

Fault Tolerance & Resilience:

• Implementing circuit breakers using Hystrix, Resilience4j to ensure service reliability. Handling retries, fallbacks, and timeouts to increase system robustness.

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Containerization using Docker for microservice deployment. Orchestration with Kubernetes for scalable microservices.

Database Design:

• Polyglot persistence: Working with multiple databases, such as SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra). Ensuring data consistency in a distributed environment (eventual consistency, SAGA patterns).

CI/CD for Microservices:

• Implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI for automated testing and deployment.

Monitoring & Logging:

• Distributed tracing with Zipkin and Prometheus for microservice observability. Centralized logging using EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana).

RESTful API Design:

• Designing and developing REST APIs using HTTP principles and Expertise in URI design best practices (e.g., resource-based URIs, proper HTTP status codes). Versioning strategies for APIs (e.g., URL versioning, header versioning).

API Documentation & Specification:

• Using OpenAPI (Swagger) to document and auto-generate client code and server stubs. Writing clear and detailed API specifications, including request-response models, query parameters, and error codes.

Security & Authentication:

• Implementing OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys, and OAuth scopes for secure access control. Experience with SSL/TLS encryption for secure communication. Knowledge of CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) and API throttling/rate limiting.

AWS Compute Services:

• EC2, ELB, Lambda, ECS & EKS

Team Management & Mentorship:

• Lead team of size 10 through high-pressure situations, managing urgent bug fixes, production incidents, or tight deadlines without compromising team morale.

Agile Project Management:

• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for driving iterative development and continuous delivery.

Security Best Practices:

• Secured RESTful APIs by using OAuth 2.0, JWT tokens, and API gateways for rate limiting and secure access control.
• Implemented API throttling, IP whitelisting, and security headers (e.g., Content Security Policy, Strict-Transport-Security) to prevent abuse and attacks.
• Applied CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) policies to prevent unauthorized API consumption.
• Applied AES encryption for sensitive data storage and RSA or ECC encryption algorithms for secure key management.
• Integrated end-to-end encryption in APIs and data masking for sensitive customer information.