Engineer at the intersection of systems and business.

I'm Zarif, a software engineer focused on high-level systems design and integrations. I work across the full stack but my gravity is on the backend: API design, data modeling, CMS architecture, and making disparate systems interoperate. Outside of code, I'm deep into video games (strategy, RPGs, anything with good systems) and music (Bonobo, Four Tet, Floating Points: the kind of stuff you can code to for hours).

I start with the business problem, not the technology. What data needs to move? Who needs to edit it? What breaks if this goes down? From there I work backward to architecture: choosing the right abstractions, keeping the surface area small, and writing code that the next engineer can understand in ten minutes. Same philosophy I bring to games: understand the system, then optimize.