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Case studies, ventures, and publications tagged with Kafka across Samuel Mofrad's architecture portfolio.

Architectural Case Studies (1)

Samuel Mofrad

Samuel Mofrad

🏢 Enterprise & Employer
Lead Solutions Architect • Tier-1 European Banking Group • FinTech & Banking
Tier-1 Bank • €180M+ Daily Throughput • ⏱ •

High-Throughput SEPA Payment Gateway & Clearing Engine Modernization

Led architecture modernization for a Tier-1 German banking group, transitioning legacy batch clearing jobs to real-time ISO 20022 message processing.

• Architectural Implementation:
  • Designed an idempotent event-sourcing transactional ledger with event replay capabilities using Kafka and PostgreSQL.
  • Engineered resilient circuit breakers and rate limiters compliant with BaFin audit standards and PSD2 regulation.
  • Achieved 99.999% availability during peak transaction clearing windows (over €180M processed daily).
  • Cut transaction latency from batch windows down to sub-800ms real-time settlement.
Java EE Microservices ISO 20022 PostgreSQL Kafka
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Profile Experience (1)

Enterprise Software Architect & Principal Consultant

European DAX & SMI Enterprise Leaders (Automotive, Banking, Software) • 2018 – Present • Principal Advisory & Architecture

Directing large-scale distributed systems architecture, monolith-to-microservices migrations, and cloud-native platform engineering.