Mohammad Ghazanfar

Software Engineer

United Kingdom9 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Improved p95 latencies by over 50% at Confluent.
Led development of a successful customer support solution.
Transformed Log Collection Engine into a distributed service.

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Skills

Core Skills

ObservabilityDistributed SystemsProgramming

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache DruidApache FlinkApache KafkaCC++CUDAComputer ScienceDiscrete MathematicsESXiGitGo (Programming Language)GrafanaHelm (Software)

Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Remote

As a part of the Larger Observability Data Team, my Team's primary responsibility was overseeing the data layer of Confluent's Observability platform.
During my time in this role, I ...
Fine-tuned data segment sizes and optimised hand-off times in Apache Druid to improve p95 latencies by over 50%.
Led the development of MetricViewer, an on-premises customer support solution utilizing Grafana. This was delivered in a single quarter. Adoption rates surpassed the initial targets by over twofold, resulting in my recognition as a Quarterly Key Contributor.
Spearheaded the planning and provided implementation guidance to junior engineers for our team's pursuit of FedRAMP certification.
Led the transition of internal alerting from ThirdEye to Grafana. I personally implemented support in OSS Grafana for integration with Confluent Cloud.
Moreover, I actively participated in hiring efforts, mentored interns and junior engineers, and spoke at Apache Kafka and Apache Druid meetups.

TerraformGitApache DruidAmazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesComputer Science+8

Senior Software Engineer 2

Aug 2021 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

GitAmazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesComputer ScienceHelm (Software)Vert.x+4

Nutanix

4 roles

Member of Technical Staff 4

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

I was a C++ developer in the IDF team at Nutanix. I also have experience in Golang and Python.
While at Nutanix, I worked on Insights Data Fabric (IDF), which is an internal datastore utilizing Cassandra and MongoDB as its backend. IDF served as a store for configuration data, operational states, metadata, and time series information.
During my tenure, I ...
Created "Watches" a feature enabling IDF clients to subscribe to real-time data changes, consequently minimizing the reliance on polling queries.
Identified and fixed a bug within MongoDB's C++ driver that was posing a threat to data consistency guarantees.
Implemented a C plugin for Python to counteract a memory spike issue in the Python interpreter during fork+exec operations
Overhauled Nutanix's Log Collection Engine, reshaping it into a distributed service named 'Logbay.' This transformation empowered client teams to manage configurations autonomously, eliminating the need for them to raise requests with our team
In addition to my technical contributions, I actively participated as a member of the interview panel, engaging in over 20 university hiring drives. I also played a role in the Questions Review Committee, ensuring the maintenance of fair standards throughout the university hiring processes.

GitComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsProgramming

Member of Technical Staff 3

Jun 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Directly promoted from Member of Technical Staff(MTS) to MTS-3. Skipping over MTS-2.

GitComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsProgramming

Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2016 – May 2017 · 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

GitComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsProgramming

Intern

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

I was a part of the Infrastructure team at the QA-Functional division of Nutanix. I owned and tested the one-click ESXi to AHV hypervisor conversion feature offered by the Nutanix platform.

GitComputer ScienceProgramming

Morgan stanley

Engineering Intern

Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Bangalore, India

I was a part of the Client Data and Predictive Analysis(CDPA) team under the Institutional Corporate Technology(ICT) division of Morgan Stanley. I was involved in developing a tool which will be used by the team for testing their Informatica workflows.

Computer ScienceProgramming

Center for cloud computing and big data, pes university

Research Intern

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India

This was a summer internship which focused mostly on research. I worked as a part of a team
which worked on algorithms for mining time series using GPGPUs running CUDA. This was supported by GE.

Computer ScienceProgramming