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Ali Rezafard
Director of Engineering specializing in cybersecurity SaaS platforms and cloud-scale backend systems
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Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.
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Key Strengths
- Engineering leadership (Director of Engineering at Proofpoint, 8 years)
- Guided long-term architecture decisions for Java microservices integrated into a detection stack
- Balanced speed-to-market vs cost/quality; accepted initial higher costs to hit launch date then paid down technical debt
- Reduced AWS spend post-launch by scaling services back down
- Structured approach to backward-compatible JSON payload evolution and deprecation (dependency discovery, SPIKEs, migration planning)
- Improved developer experience via biweekly developer–engineering alignment meetings
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