About Me

Hi, I’m Musharaf Altaf — a software engineer who loves systems that make sense, code that holds up under pressure, and ideas that come from physics and mathematics. I’m driven by curiosity and a desire to solve real-world problems through elegant engineering.

With experience across logistics, edtech, biotech, and agritech, I’ve built and debugged systems that move real-world trucks, model genetic interactions, process payments, and visualize data in 3D. I don‘t just build apps; I build resilient systems—architected for scale, change, and clarity.

Outside of work, I’m the kind of person who reads about gravitational time dilation for fun, or rewrites a recursive algorithm just to make it tail-call optimized. I find beauty in problems—technical or otherwise—and I enjoy working with people who care about their craft.

What I Do

I engineer software with a focus on clarity, correctness, and composability. My approach emphasizes clean architecture, thoughtful domain modeling, and practical trade-offs. Some things I regularly work on:

• Designing domain-driven, event-based systems using MassTransit, RabbitMQ, and Azure Service Bus
• Building .NET APIs and microservices with Clean Architecture, CQRS, and SOLID principles
• Refactoring legacy schemas and normalizing relational databases for performance, integrity, and maintainability
• Developing micro frontends in Nx monorepos using React, Angular, Tailwind, and Headless UI
• Automating everything—CI/CD pipelines, deployments, migration scripts, and test suites with Jest, XUnit, and TestContainers
• Instrumenting observability pipelines using Azure AppInsights and KQL for debugging and production insight
• Writing internal debugging tools (like GPS plotters) and Python multiprocessing scripts for large-scale data transformation

What I Value

Engineering, to me, is applied philosophy—it’s about thinking clearly, building deliberately, and embracing constraint. I value:

• Understanding the domain deeply before writing code
• Optimizing for readability over cleverness
• Asking good questions, not just writing good answers
• Improving a system without overengineering it
• Working with humility, curiosity, and care

Tech I Use