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Asif Iqbal

Now

UPDATED 2026-07-04 · LONDON

Current focus

  • Drafting the retrospective: Benchmarking ticket deduplication and hash collision resistance across 2M+ monthly webhook events. Isolating idempotent key strategies for distributed Zendesk queues.
  • Adommo advisory scopes: Running two architectural audits for high-growth SaaS platforms transitioning from heuristic deflection bots to deterministic state machines.
  • Investigating Model Context Protocol (MCP) in CX: Building proof-of-concept MCP tools that enforce read-only boundary constraints between LLM triage agents and enterprise CRM databases.

Reading & references

  • Distributed Systems in Practice: Re-reading Leslie Lamport's foundational papers on state machine replication with an eye toward LLM agent handoff guarantees.
  • Zendesk API v2 limits: Stress testing cursor pagination edge cases when ingesting historical ticket audits.

Location & availability

Working from London. Currently booking advisory and audit engagements for Q3 2026 through the work page. Not accepting full-time employment roles.

PAGE CADENCE NOTE

This page is updated in the same sitting as each monthly technical essay. If a month passes without an update, the date above reflects that honestly. Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now movement.