Afsal Thaj
Senior Software Engineer · Golem Cloud
Durable Execution · Systems Engineering · Distributed Systems · Functional Programming
I am a senior software engineer in Golem Cloud building an agent-native platform using Rust and WebAssembly — one that persists state, guarantees exactly-once external calls, provides full execution traces, and automatically recovers from crashes, outages, and network failures — without relying on databases, queues, or schedulers.
Part of Golem almost from day one, I've made key contributions including building a new programming language to interact with Wasmtime and developing language-specific SDKs. All fully open source.
Journey
Golem Cloud · USA
Building durable computing infrastructure with Rust & WebAssembly. Created Rib language, language SDKs, and golem-timeline — a data engineering layer powered by durable execution.
Ziverge · USA
Built observability frameworks for a large streaming platform using Scala and Go. Deep work in the ZIO ecosystem — authored zio-config, my most notable contribution to the Scala ecosystem.
Simple Machines, CBA & others · Sydney
Dozens of projects across half a dozen companies as a team lead, squad lead and developer. Gained deep experience in distributed computing, data engineering and ML ecosystems. Many of these projects made me fell in love with Functional Programming concepts too.
Kochi · India
Where my engineering journey started. The roots that shaped everything that followed.