Bilal Asif Mirza — Software Backend Engineer

Backend engineer based in Munich, Germany. 7+ years building, testing and engineering highly scalable distributed systems, RESTful microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native platforms.

Currently at Holidu GmbH. Previously at SSNC Primatics Financial. Core contributor to the OSHI open source project.

Qualification

Software Engineer at Holidu GmbH, Munich (April 2021 - Present). Previously Software Engineer Level 3 at SSNC Primatics Financial, Karachi (Oct 2018 - Mar 2021). Bachelors in Software Engineering from Bahria University, Karachi.

Experience & Impact

Spearheaded end-to-end migration of legacy booking systems to high-performance microservices at Holidu, handling 80K+ monthly bookings with zero downtime. Designed a resilient ActiveMQ-based event-driven system supporting 50K+ hosts, unified listings across Airbnb, Booking.com, HomeAway & Check24 (70K+ properties), and shipped pricing engines driving $5M+ in incremental eGMV. Introduced Spring AI + LiteLLM for automated error classification. Previously at SSNC Primatics Financial: led Java 5→8 migration, deployed ActiveMQ processing 750K events/day, and delivered the department's first microservice.

Featured Projects

Kurzlinker — a URL shortener I built with Spring Boot, Kotlin, and PostgreSQL. Live at kurzlinker.click.

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, Kotlin. Backend & Patterns: Spring Boot, Spring AI, Microservices, ActiveMQ, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, REST APIs, Liquibase, Caffeine. Cloud & Observability: AWS (SQS, Athena, S3), Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Grafana, Sentry.

Get In Touch

Email: bilal.asif.97@gmail.com · GitHub · LinkedIn