Staff Engineer Ferrovia
- Joined to fix one payments reconciliation job; ended up owning the three systems it touched.
- Reduced incident volume on the settlement pipeline by rebuilding its retry semantics, not by adding more alerting.
Altair R.
Software engineer, roamer by role - I work on whatever is actually broken.
altairrostam@gmail.com
github.com/altairrostam
linkedin.com/in/altair-r
Experience
Senior Engineer Loom & Wire
- Rewrote the inventory sync service after the third time it silently double-counted stock.
- Ran the migration off the vendor search index nobody else wanted to touch.
Software Engineer Basin Health
- Built the clinic scheduling backend from a spreadsheet and a promise.
- Spent a year on HIPAA-adjacent plumbing nobody else wanted to own.
Software Engineer Kettlebell Labs
- First real engineering job; shipped the checkout flow that's still in production.
- Learned what "done" means from an on-call rotation of one.
Projects
runbook go
Static-site generator for on-call docs; fails the build on a stale link.
quietpager typescript
Pager-duty analytics surfacing which services are actually loud.
backfill rust
CLI for replaying production traffic against staging without melting it.
Open Source
postgres-lag-exporter maintainer
Small metrics exporter for replication lag.
sidekiq contributor
A few merged fixes around dead job retries.
httpx contributor
Fixed a timeout edge case that took longer to reproduce than to fix.