Payments & Trade Finance
Core banking, SWIFT MT/MX, dunning and settlement — I speak both the business and the code.
17+years across 9+ banks
Enterprise Software Architect
I’m Ali. I architect the platforms money moves through.
For 17+ years I’ve built payment, banking and trade-finance systems — today focused on event-driven platforms and production AI that regulated businesses can trust.
Ali AminianArchitect · Yatta GmbH
Currently I’m Platform Engineer & Software Architect at Yatta in Frankfurt, where I design the integration layer, API gateway and event backbone — Kafka, Temporal and Kubernetes — that the business runs on.
Before that I owned the architecture of a payments & dunning platform at ZahlungsWERK, built backend services for Deutsche Telekom’s MagentaTV, worked on trade finance for Deutsche Bank, and led a 10+ person trade-finance team across more than nine banks.
On the side I build on-premises AI for banking compliance — LLM systems where every answer is verified and no data ever leaves the building.
Expertise
What I’m known for.
Event-Driven Architecture
Kafka, Debezium and Temporal platforms built for exactly-once, auditable money flows.
99.9%settlement reliability
Cloud-Native Platforms
Kubernetes, Istio and GitOps on AWS, GCP and Azure — with observability from day one.
~80%lower CDC operating cost
Production AI
On-prem LLM pipelines with deterministic verification, made for regulated domains.
9.5×faster, zero data egress
Java 25Spring Boot 4KafkaTemporalKubernetesIstioGraphQL FederationTerraformPostgreSQLLangGraphvLLM
Work
Full history on LinkedIn →
Where I’ve been
Yatta GmbH
Platform Engineer & Software Architect
ZahlungsWERK GmbH
Architect & Senior Backend Developer
axxessio · Deutsche Telekom
Senior Software Engineer
GFT · Deutsche Bank
Functional Analyst, Trade Finance
Dotin
Trade Finance Team Lead
Banking & FinTech
Consultant & Developer
Contact
aminian.ali@gmail.com
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