Md Ashraf
@mdashraf1
Lead/Senior Software Engineer specializing in Python, building scalable, event-driven platforms for insurance, fintech, and healthcare.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Lead/Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, high-performance enterprise applications across Insurance, Financial Services, and Healthcare. I focus on translating complex business requirements into technical solutions that are secure, highly available, and aligned with business objectives.
In my recent work, I built a multi-tenant insurance platform from scratch using Django REST Framework and FastAPI, designing core policy microservices with strong data isolation and configurable product rules. I implemented an event-driven backbone with Apache Kafka to keep quoting, underwriting, billing, and claims synchronized, replacing nightly batch reconciliation with real-time workflow consistency.
I’m equally strong across full-stack and distributed systems: I build client experiences with Next.js, create GraphQL services (including federation gateways), and orchestrate containerized workloads on AWS EKS with Kubernetes, Helm, and rolling deployments for zero-downtime releases. I also prioritize observability and reliability—using OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus dashboards, and structured logging to resolve production incidents faster.
Across my roles, I’ve led teams through code reviews and mentoring, enforcing mypy strict typing and Ruff linting while coaching engineers on reasoning and architecture. I bring deep database and data-workflow expertise with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Airflow, and ETL pipelines, and I deliver end-to-end CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead/Senior Software Engineer
Reg E d
Aug 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)
Led development of a multi-tenant insurance platform, building policy microservices with Django REST Framework and FastAPI and designing an event-driven backbone using Apache Kafka. Delivered client-facing and data-access layers (Next.js portal, GraphQL federation) and ran containerized workloads on AWS EKS with automated CI/CD, observability, and search capabilities.
Designed and delivered an insurance policy administration backbone with FastAPI and asyncio, supporting the full insurance lifecycle from quoting through renewals and cancellations. Built underwriting rule engines, migrated services to AWS, and implemented real-time quote comparison, GraphQL/REST APIs, search and document generation, and Celery-based claim intake workflows.
Spearheaded high-performance trading data microservices with FastAPI and asyncio to process over 100,000 live price updates per minute with sub-second latency. Built React portfolio dashboards, secure payment processing integrations (Stripe, Plaid), fraud detection with Kafka/Celery/WebSockets, and automated regulatory reporting workflows using Airflow.
Developed RESTful APIs with Django REST Framework for secure patient data exchange and implemented Flask microservices for role-based access controls and encryption to maintain HIPAA compliance. Built real-time appointment scheduling with WebSockets and Celery, integrated lab diagnostic APIs, automated ETL pipelines with Python/Airflow, and delivered analytics dashboards and robust testing (pytest
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating in 2015.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Apache Spark
Chart.js
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
NumPy
Pandas
PySpark
dbt
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Hadoop
Gmail
Django
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Redis
Terraform
Vue.js
JavaScript
HTML5
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Django REST framework
FastAPI
asyncio
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
SQLAlchemy
Datadog
GraphQL
gRPC
Elasticsearch
Azure Functions
Redpanda
pytest
Airflow
SQL
Apache Iceberg
LangChain
DuckDB
Playwright
Delta Lake
ArgoCD
Score
Bash
Transform
Ruff
Dynamic
Middleware
Task
Factory
Unify
Seaborn
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Social media
Job categories
Skills
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