Zabeer is a Principal Engineering Architect with 20+ years of IT experience, currently working at Credit Agricole CIB in Singapore. His role spans engineering strategy, platform and technical architecture, and AI-native engineering transformation. Passionate about Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and data streaming, he has architected and designed multiple solutions built on these technologies. He is active in the Singapore tech community as a co-host of Kafka meetups and a regular speaker at meetups and conferences, where he shares insights on event-driven architectures and modern data platforms.

Zabeer is deeply involved in the Kafka community in Singapore, regularly attending and contributing to meetups. He has co-hosted meetups, delivered talks and shares insights on LinkedIn. Within his organization, he has trained developers on Kafka, and has architected real-time streaming solutions with CDC, Kafka Streams and Apache Iceberg, bridging operational and analytical workloads.