# Kaizen Towfiq

> Senior Software Engineer at UCSF

Location: El Cerrito, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaizentowfiq

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ University of California, San Francisco
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Cyral
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
• Led design and implementation of authentication & authorization in the product's microservices architecture
• Added support for proxying Snowflake Web UI with nginx and lua
• Led design and implementation of GitHub Application to manage Cyral Policies with git
• Created several proof of concepts
• Worked with the UI team to add new features to the Cyral Management Console UI
• Consistently succeeded in debugging non-trivial issues across the entire stack
• Contributed to public facing technical documentation
• Wrote several company blog posts

### Software Engineer @ Tradeshift
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
• Responsible for extending the functionality of the Tradeshift platform by designing & developing Apps that tailor the platform to the needs of customers as part of the Apps Engineering team
• Assessed project scope, designed solutions, quickly delivered proof-of-concepts, and implemented solutions with the team
• Designed REST APIs & backend services following serverless microservice design patterns
• Utilized AWS Resources (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Fargate, IoT, etc.)
• Deployed infrastructure using the Serverless Framework as well as Terraform
• Consistently solved ambiguous problems ranging in abstraction from high level design problems to low level security problems
• Enabled our team to move forward on projects and save customer relationships by figuring out how to modify undocumented components of the platform
• Successfully operated as a sole contributor & project owner, as well as a helpful teammate
• Coordinated with internal teams & customers to meet deadlines
• Primarily worked on the backend of our apps, but contributed to the frontend when necessary

### Undergraduate Mathematics Researcher @ UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | UC Santa Barbara
As part of UCSB's Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates (UCSB Math REU) I worked with a Principal Investigator and another student in exploring the properties of DL(P), a space of block-symmetric linearizations for matrix polynomials.  The research program consisted of developing and proving new theorems, giving presentations biweekly, creating numerical experiments, presenting at a poster conference, and sharing results with the National Science Foundation (NSF).

### Software Engineer @ Promptlink Communications, Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Oceanside, CA
I designed and created an iOS application to improve the user experience and reliability of Promptlink’s set­top box testing platform.

### Jr. Software Engineer @ Flowroute Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Seattle, WA


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematical Sciences
UC Santa Barbara


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kaizentowfiq

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Last updated: 2026-03-29