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Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in Financial Systems with Muzeeb Mohammad

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Feb 16, 2026
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Muzeeb Mohammad
Muzeeb Mohammad, senior manager of software engineering at JPMorgan Chase who builds secure, resilient event-driven microservices for finance. He discusses motivations for event-driven architecture, decoupling account flows with Kafka, async processing to meet SLAs, observability and tracing, bridging mainframes to event streams, event sourcing as a system-of-record, security and compliance, and AI for observability.
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ANECDOTE

Kafka Decoupled Account Opening

  • Muzeeb describes replacing a monolith with Kafka topics to decouple account opening flows.
  • Fraud checks, credit scoring, and account creation consumed events independently to meet SLAs faster.
ADVICE

Decouple With Topic-Per-Consumer

  • Design independent topics and consumers so downstream services process asynchronously.
  • Let teams deploy independently to shorten time-to-market and reduce coupling.
INSIGHT

Trace IDs Tie Observability Together

  • Use trace IDs across UI and microservices to trace transactions end-to-end.
  • Combine Splunk, Dynatrace and AppDynamics for observability and fast root-cause detection.
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