Almir Mustafic

I am a Solutions Architect and a Sr. Director of Software Engineering living in Texas. My interests range from software engineering to sports and cars. I am super passionate about the field of software engineering and I love solving problems in this field working with my teams.

I studied Computer/Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto. I have been in software engineering field professionally for 25+ years. It has been a journey from vi editors on Unix to fancy IDEs that we use these days; it has been a journey from desktop applications to distributed applications with n-tier architecture to microservices world; it has been a journey from your own data centers to cloud computing.

When it comes to computers, I enjoy providing software solutions using my creative, analytical skills and thinking outside the box. I started as a software engineer on Unix platforms and then in late 90s I shifted my attention to software engineering in Telecommunication industry mostly using the Microsoft technologies (C++, Visual Studio, C#). Then I focused on building enterprise level applications and web sites using Microsoft .NET frameworks. In my current phase of my career my focus has been on microservice architecture, cloud computing and transformation to Agile and SAFe/LeSS methodology and Product Operating Model. Some of the technologies in my day job are: AWS, Java (SpringBoot), Python, NoSQL (DynamoDB), RDBMS (Aurora, Postgres), Pub/Sub architecture (SNS, SQS), streaming architecture (Kinesis streams), Redis cache, machine learning (AWS SageMaker, AWS Batch, AWS EMR) and many more.

This is what I follow in my career:

“To be successful, you don’t need to be the best; you just need to be the best in striving to be better.”

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