Jeffrey Zalischi

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Senior Software Engineer, 2023 — present

Meridian Systems

Owning the payments platform and the team that keeps it correct.

Role
Senior Software Engineer
Period
2023 — present
The place
Fintech · payments infrastructure · ~200 employees

As senior engineer on the payments platform, I hold end-to-end ownership of the systems that move and account for customer money. The headline project was rebuilding reconciliation from a manual process into a real-time engine, but the role is as much about the team and the standards as the code.

What I did there

Led the reconciliation rebuild

Architected and shipped Ledgerline, the streaming reconciliation engine that cut settlement lag from three days to forty seconds. Owned the design from the state-machine model through the on-call runbook.

Grew and steadied a team of four

Run design reviews, mentor two mid-level engineers, and set the platform's testing and observability bar. Turnover on the team went to zero over the last year and the on-call load dropped as the systems got more predictable.

Made correctness auditable

Pushed the platform toward append-only audit logs and idempotent processing so that 'why did this happen?' is always answerable — the standard that made the payments systems something regulators and finance could trust.

What it changed

Reconciliation lag
3d → 40s
Unexplained variances, year one
0
Engineers led
4

Tools of the trade

GoPostgreSQLKafkaKubernetesTerraform

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