# Afsha Nazim > Software Engineer @Figma Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/afsha Software engineer with extensive experience building distributed systems at scale. I am passionate about solving complex technical problems and designing resilient systems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Figma Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Building the notifications platform for Figma products. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cash App Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Financial Platform for Cash App ### Staff Software Engineer @ Twilio Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Twilio Segment Backend. Personas compute engine for real-time traits and audience computations. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States AV Dispatch Backend services to manage Cruise Car itineraries on road. ### Software Engineer @ Postmates Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on design through deployment of services for Fleet incentives. Postmates couriers view their incentive achievements in the app. Built the payment pipeline for multi day guaranteed earnings incentives. Worked on authorization model for Postmates developer API. Worked on Postmates <->Square integration which allowed merchants to deliver Square orders on Postmates platform. Worked on redesigns of fleet application for Android. ### Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale CA Backend service for Apple education. Technologies: Netty, Java Spring, Cassandra. ### Software Design Engineer @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA Amazon Fling SDK Working on Internet of Things (IoT) focused middleware for multiple device platforms and mobile applications. SDK enables device/service discovery, connectivity for applications across all mobile platforms (iOS, Android and Amazon Cloud). Designed and implemented Cloud discovery and communication for iOS SDK. This enables users to discover and connect to devices on different networks. The feature involved bridging a message protocol with a stream based protocol. This feature has been integrated into Amazon Instant Video and FireTV remote apps on Android and iOS. Shipped the SDK on multiple amazon devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Fire TV stick, Fire Phone and Echo and also as part of iOS applications. Amazon Fling SDK: https://developer.amazon.com/fling Fire TV remote app: http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-TV-Remote-App/dp/B00ODIASKC/ Project: Reader Application for Kindle eReader Worked on the Reader application for Kindle eReader devices. Architected and built end-end test automation framework to exercise APIs and UI for the reader app. Implemented an extensive suite of automated tests including performance tests to measure the book open, page turn times etc. ### Software Design Engineer in Test @ Microsoft Corporation Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Redmond, Washington Project: Windows Workflow Foundation Workflow Foundation (WF) provides a foundation for creating unified, long running and scalable applications. Worked on a full product development life-cycle for .Net 4.0 and shipped Visual Studio 2010. Designed and developed a tool for Test Selection called TestPredictor. The tool used code coverage data to predict a set of test cases that are affected by a given code change. With this tool we could significantly reduce the number of tests that are run and thereby optimize resources spent (time and machines). Managed and lead the code coverage exit criteria for the entire ADP team. ## Education ### B Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering University of Calicut ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/afsha-nazim-4668335 --- Source: https://flows.cv/afsha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/afsha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11