kelowna, british columbia

Zaafir Ali

sales support coordinator

BCIT Computer Information Technology graduate. I write C#, Python and SQL, and I've built tooling that other people depend on — a legacy-system utility used by 15 clients, and a six-service application running on Azure. I currently run inventory operations for one of Best Buy Canada's largest warehouses.

[email] [linkedin] [github]

experience

  1. 2025.03—now

    Senior Product Process

    Best Buy Canada  /  Kelowna, BC

    • Inventory control end to end — weekly stock counts, discrepancy reconciliation and SOP compliance across one of Best Buy Canada's largest warehouses.
    • Resolved $40,000 of inventory shrinkage with the Operations Store Leader ahead of a quarterly count.
    • Process roughly $60,000 of inventory weekly; own the Net Variance Report that feeds store leadership.
    • Mentor and train 17 part-time and seasonal staff; oversee five departments as Planogram Captain.
    • Reorganized the warehouse layout for workflow, and handle all defective item processing and dispatch store-wide.

  2. 2025.01—2025.03

    Full Time Product Process

    Best Buy Canada  /  Kelowna, BC

    • Managed inventory software to monitor stock levels, minimize shrinkage and keep annual counts accurate.
    • Placed 1,000+ tracking labels to prepare the store for its inventory count.
    • Traced missing items and corrected stock record discrepancies; improved replenishment for high-demand SKUs.

  3. 2024.08—2025.01

    Part Time Product Process

    Best Buy Canada  /  Kelowna, BC

    • Supported Boxing Day and Black Friday sales of $800K and $700K through inventory optimization and cross-functional coordination.
    • One of four selected for WAVE forklift certification; trained new hires on high-shrink merchandise handling and loss prevention.
    • Awarded "Best in Uniform" (Employee of the Month) for professionalism, and an "Honest Pays" certificate for integrity.

  4. 2023.01—2023.08

    Junior Developer

    CAMS Software  /  Burnaby, BC

    • Worked inside a 7-person Outbound WPF team, diagnosing and fixing C#, XAML and SQL defects across a legacy distributed system.
    • Resolved 50+ complex tickets to keep continuous updates flowing.
    • Built a C# tool and SQL stored procedure adopted by 15+ clients.
    • Authored 10+ manuals documenting legacy system behaviour for developer reference.
    • Optimized database queries and refactored existing code, cutting execution time.
    • Added error-handling to improve reliability; took part in code reviews to raise maintainability.
    • Corresponded directly with 5 clients on issues and questions.

    C# / XAML / .NET / SQL Server / T-SQL / Scrum

  5. 2014.09—2021.01

    Soccer Official

    BC Soccer  /  Vancouver, BC

    • Officiated matches across 5+ leagues in the Lower Mainland — amateur, college and university level, plus inter-squad fixtures.
    • Worked alongside 20+ experienced officials. Split-second decisions under argument, which turns out to transfer.

projects

  1. 2023

    Soccer Statistics Application

    Tracks Premier League data for 20 teams and 500 players. Six microservices handle storage and synchronization, deployed together on an Azure virtual machine with real-time retrieval between services.

    Python / MySQL / Kafka / Zookeeper / Docker / YAML / Azure

    source ↗

  2. 2023

    Video Player

    Built by a team of three under Agile practice, with pair programming throughout. Containerized and deployed as six pods on Kubernetes.

    Python / HTML / Docker / Kubernetes

    source ↗

  3. 2024—now

    Zaaf's World

    This site, built with Claude Code. I set the direction, reviewed each iteration and drove it from an early 3D concept to this typographic layout, including catching a mobile layout bug that made it to production. No framework and no runtime dependencies beyond three.js, which drives the hero object and loads only when the browser can use it.

    HTML / CSS / JavaScript / three.js / Vite / Netlify

    source ↗

skills

languages
Python, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL / T-SQL, R, Bash, PowerShell, HTML, CSS
frameworks
.NET, Node.js, Express.js, Flask, React, XAML, EJS, Pytest
data
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite, Kafka, Zookeeper, database modelling, normalization
infra
Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Azure, AWS, GCP, Heroku, Groovy
systems
Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian), Windows, Apache, Nginx, VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Active Directory
practice
Git, GitHub, GitLab, Agile, Scrum, Jira, Confluence, unit testing, code review, debugging

education

  1. 2021.09—2023.12

    Diploma, Computer Information Technology

    British Columbia Institute of Technology

    Graduated with an 83% GPA.

contact

Open to talking about opportunities, interesting problems, or anything on this page. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

email
zaaf17@hotmail.com
linkedin
linkedin.com/in/zaafirali11 ↗
github
github.com/zafyyre ↗
location
Kelowna, British Columbia