Zaman Ishtiyaq
Co-founder, Engineering
AI-native backend engineer, seven years across Goldman Sachs, BrightEdge, and Atlan. Market-risk orchestration on regulatory deadlines, an API serving 200,000+ requests a day — now the AI and platform side of this studio.
- 7+
- Years in the work
- 3
- Companies
- 2019
- Shipping since
What Zaman owns here
- AI & agent systems
- Platform engineering
- Backend architecture
- Technical strategy
Experience
- 2026
Atlan
Senior Software Engineer, AI-Native Engineering
Mar 2026 — Present
Migrated the Redshift and Fivetran connectors from Argo onto Automation Engine and Temporal.
- 2023
BrightEdge3 roles
Lead Backend Engineer, AI Catalyst
May 2025 — Feb 2026
Led the backend for the AI Catalyst platform, serving 50+ organizations.
Senior Software Engineer, Search Volume API
Jan 2025 — May 2025
Owned the Dockerized GCP service behind 250+ enterprise customers and 200,000+ daily API requests.
Software Engineer III, Search Volume
Nov 2023 — Dec 2024
Cut time-to-display from over a week to under 48 hours, at 99% availability.
- 2018
Goldman Sachs3 roles
Software Engineer II, Market Risk
Jan 2022 — Oct 2023
Core developer on the Central Orchestrator for Market Risk Metrics — 30+ features delivered.
Software Engineer, LIBOR Regulatory Reporting
Jun 2019 — Dec 2021
Reduced the regulatory reporting cycle from a month to a week.
Software Developer Intern
May 2018 — Jun 2018
Query-layer development on the Vert.x framework.
Education
- 2015 — 2019
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
CGPA 8.97/10. Top 0.05% in JEE Main and JEE Advanced, 2015.
Toolkit
What Zaman builds with day to day. Hover to slow it down.
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- Django
- Flask
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- ClickHouse
- BigQuery
- Redis
- Kafka
- Temporal
- Docker
- GCP
- Cloudflare R2
- Jenkins
- Prometheus
- Grafana
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