Hey, I'm
Zainul Ariffin.

I am always thinking of new ways and ideas to improve existing systems and processes with technology. Building applications and solutions is my favorite hobby. I put in effort daily to constantly improve my skills in order to build better applications.
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Education and Experience
Dec 2023 - Present
Manage 24/7 production reliability through rotating on-call shifts, mitigating alerts and coordinating hotfixes
Embedded with Connectors team to provision infrastructure, cloud resources, and CI/CD pipelines for microservices
Designed automated disaster recovery testing framework using Chaos Toolkit, reducing DR testing time by 70%
Led Production Readiness Review (PRR) automation using agent-based workflows, reducing review time from 3–4 days to 15 minutes
Established observability and incident response efficiency with Grafana/Prometheus dashboards and automated alerts
AWSTerraformKubernetesKustomizeGrafanaPrometheusCI/CDArgoCDPythonChaos ToolkitAI AgentsNov 2022 - Nov 2023
Engineered Trust/EnTrust/EnTrust lite platforms on GCC 2.0 for secure data access by researchers
Developed EnTrust lite Ops Portal v2 frontend with NextJS and implemented Role Based Access Control
Led full-scope backend and frontend development, provisioned via Terraform with Python serverless functions
Developed React Electron application for offline handling of large civilian datasets with data anonymization
TerraformTypescriptNextJSPythonAWSLinuxDockerECSReact
Bachelor in Computing Science
President of SIT Geeks - organized bi-monthly meetups, field trips, and hackathons
Lead of Google Developer Student Club - organized workshops on emerging technologies
Multiple hackathon wins including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places at Glasgow University Tech Society
LeadershipEvent ManagementCommunity BuildingPublic Speaking
2013 - 2017
Diploma in Information Technology
Won 2nd Prize for IDA Data Driven Challenge 2016
Awarded Best Innovative Project (Tertiary) for SITF 2016
JavaC#SQLHTMLCSSJavascriptAndroid
Skills
Certification
Awards
My Projects

Grade Calculator
GPA calculator for various school grading systems. 12K+ students monthly.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 12000 users

DISC-based Personality Test
DISC test with team insights — invite members and compare results.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 0 users

SheetsDB
Turn Google Sheets into JSON APIs for free. Product Hunt #22 Product of the Day.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 90 users
RSVP List
Mobile-friendly RSVP forms in seconds. Free forever, no signup required.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 0 users

CarparkSG
Live SG carpark map with lot availability, rates, gantry info, and directions.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 0 users
UpAnot / COE Game
Predict COE prices, stake virtual credits, and climb the real leaderboard.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 0 users

PWAStore
PWA discovery platform with 495+ curated apps serving 6K+ monthly users.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 6000 users

Bluffdeck
Party games — Imposter, Mafia, Who Said That, and more. No signup, just scan.
- Status
- Live
- Monthly Users
- 0 users
Get In Touch
Let's Connect
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