Help Me Attend Fintech DevCon 2025

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I’m Satnam — a backend engineer focused on payment systems, CI/CD, and distributed infrastructure. I’ve spent the last year building real systems: from re-architecting money transfer flows at a major Canadian bank to building an internal observability dashboard for GitHub Actions. I’ve also been writing publicly about the backend scars these systems leave behind — the tradeoffs, failures, and lessons that don’t always show up in postmortems. This August, I’m hoping to attend Fintech DevCon 2025 — a gathering of engineers and founders working on the hardest problems in fintech: orchestration, ledgers, observability, fraud, and scale. I reached out and was able to get the $1,195 ticket brought down to $300. I’ve covered that part — now I’m raising funds to help with the remaining costs: flight and accommodation. If you’ve gotten value from my writing, or simply want to support someone working to grow in this space — any contribution or reshare would mean a lot. ▸ [Substack – The System Is the Scar] ▸ [LinkedIn – My backend engineering posts] Thank you for believing in me.