A little about meA LITTLE ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Hirza — a software engineer who's spent the better part of two decades at the intersection of quality, automation, tooling and release engineering.

It started in 2007, fresh out of Rutgers with a biomedical engineering degree, building data-integrity and diffing tools at Epic Systems. The thread has run through every stop since — Barclays, Lyft, Chime, and Cash App: how do we help engineers ship fast without breaking things? I've built UI and end-to-end automation in Kotlin, Swift, Java, TypeScript, and Ruby, wired it into CI as a merge gate, and built internal tools and data pipelines that make testing faster instead of slower — work that's pushed coverage up by as much as 49% and cut manual test-account setup time by nearly 90% on recent teams.

I also love the people side of this job: mentoring engineers on test automation and helping teams treat quality as part of the process, not a final checkpoint. Give me automation to build and a release process to sharpen, and I'm in my element — that's the work that lets engineering teams ship with confidence. Still the same curious, detail-obsessed person who started this site back in 2018 — just with a lot more mileage.