Mazin Mohammed

Associate Partner

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Pioneered GenAI adoption in infrastructure.
  • Expert in reliability engineering and observability.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI-driven infrastructure and reliability engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai Strategy & EnablementReliability & Observability EngineeringData & Architecture LeadershipBig Data & Operational Systems

Other Skills

AI Companion systemAd ServingAdvertising OperationsAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsApache AtlasApache FalconApache FlumeApache KMSApache KafkaApache MesosApache OozieApache RangerApache Storm

About

Engineering leader with 20+ years across Yahoo, InMobi, EY, and Target, driving scalable platforms, reliability engineering, and GenAI adoption in infrastructure. Proven track record in scaling reliability for high-performance systems, driving observability, and leading platform-wide SRE transformation. Recognized as a GenAI advocate in infrastructure organizations, pioneering adoption through real-world use cases, organizational enablement, and platform-driven innovation. Aspiring to lead AI transformation across platform engineering by shaping adoption strategies, scaling AI-driven automation, and mentoring the next generation of AI-first engineers. Key skills and strengths ➢ AI Strategy & Enablement: GenAI adoption, agentic systems, organizational upskilling ➢ Software & Platform Intelligence: Asset inventory, supply chain governance, SBOM integration ➢ Data & Architecture Leadership: Unified data models, platform-scale design, analytical integration ➢ Reliability & Observability Engineering: SRE Practices and tooling, Observability and service management practices ➢ Cross-Functional Influence: Stakeholder alignment across infra, product, security, and data orgs ➢ People Leadership & Mentorship: Global team building, technical growth, talent development ➢ Big Data & Operational Systems: Hadoop, Kafka, ad-serving ecosystems, infrastructure automation ➢ Adroit in handling product readiness and ITIL processes.

Experience

24 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Wayfair

Associate Director

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Target

Principal Engineer

Oct 2020Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos · India

  • Impact: Scaled GenAI adoption, software asset intelligence, and platform data strategy across infrastructure teams, enabling engineering productivity and governance automation.
  • ➢ Pioneered GenAI adoption within infrastructure engineering, delivering an AI Companion system using agentic architecture and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable natural language interaction over complex platform data — with real-world implementations across asset intelligence, observability, and operational workflows.
  • ➢ Architected the enterprise-wide Software Asset Management (SAM) platform, integrating telemetry from device inventory tools, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation, and an internal container orchestration system into a unified data architecture.
  • ➢ Enabled lifecycle traceability, CVE exposure analysis, and end-of-life compliance aligned with OpenChain (ISO/IEC 5230) and SPDX (ISO/IEC 5962:2021) standards — supporting software supply chain governance and approved technology enforcement.
  • ➢ Led architectural strategy for the IT Data Platform — a centralized system delivering 150+ tech data assets across infrastructure, developer tools, and operational systems. Enabled data standardization, cross-org integration, and platform-wide insight delivery.
  • ➢ Spearheaded GenAI enablement across infrastructure teams, launching internal hackathons, targeted workshops, and curriculum programs to scale adoption and cultivate an AI-first engineering mindset.
  • ➢ Led reliability engineering initiatives to streamline alert workflows, enhance SLI visibility, and reduce operational noise across platform teams.
  • ➢ Led cross-functional governance across platform domains, enabling trusted, scalable data for use cases in cost optimization, asset visibility, and engineering efficiency.
GenAI adoptionsoftware asset intelligenceplatform data strategyAI Companion systemagentic architectureModel Context Protocol (MCP)+18

Ey

Assistant Director - SRE

Jul 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangaon Area, India

  • SRE Evangelist @ EY. Part of core team with objective to build SRE culture.

Inmobi

3 roles

Architect (SRE)

Jul 2018Jun 2019 · 11 mos

  • Architect in data platform, part of data pipeline team. Key expection was to address the operability of the data pipeline which rides on high SLA expectations and has direct customer impact. Part of security council team, the team who leads security reviews for all the products getting into production. Also part of blueprint team, which proposes blueprint templates, overviews all the blueprints before it is released to production.
data pipeline operabilityhigh SLA expectationssecurity reviewsblueprint templatesReliability & Observability Engineering

Consultant

May 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Part of Grid + Data team @ InMobi worked on GDPR Project
  • Architect and Implement the technological solutions to secure all the big data components @ InMobi which comprises of Hadoop, Kafka, Flume, Falcon, Oozie, Storm, Hive, KMS, Apache Ranger as part of GDPR project.
  • Collaborate with security team to implement kerberos as authentication protocal for all Big Data components.
  • Design, Implement and Document the approach of securing all Big Data component in phase wise.
  • Design, Test and Implement solution for HDFS Data encyrption using KMS.
  • Design, Test and Implement solution for HDFS Authorization using Apache Ranger.
  • Mentor, Train the team on Security of Big Data Component.
  • Was part of team which won Avengers Award for GDPR implementation
GDPR ProjectHadoopKafkaFlumeFalconOozie+8

Sr. Production Engineering Manager

Feb 2011Feb 2015 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

  • Sr. Production Engineering Manager, leading a team of 12 personnel supporting end to end solution
  • for product to be operation from service design to service operations. Working on business critical systems that generate 150 billion monthly ad requests, 6 million monthly app downloads trackers, which demands the infrastructure designed to meet the latency SLA, and high availability.
  • Architect and Implement the technological solutions to take care of product Operability, Scalability,
  • Performance and Continuous Integration.
  • Designed Business Continuity Plans for key services based on geo locations for risk mitigation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional management and engineering teams to launch mission-critical
  • projects with tight SLA’s to support key partners like king.com, Samsung and others.
  • Coordinate with Business and different Technology Groups for resolving problems and enhancing
  • service quality of adserving.
  • Recommend, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the
  • organization.
  • Involved in road map analysis and hence predicting trends for capacity.
  • Built and managed production engineering teams to support various product verticals.
  • Design and implement complex monitor control loops for system level, application level and for overall business workflows.
  • Design, Implement and Document ITIL processes like Change Management, Incident Management,
  • Release Management, Business Continuity, Problem Management, Capacity and Availability Management.
product operabilityscalabilityperformancecontinuous integrationbusiness continuity plansmonitor control loops+2

Peace education foundation

Head of Team (PSAM)

Feb 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Kerala, India

  • Reason for switch: Due to medical reason in family which called for relocation thus took break from IT field and contributed at Peace Education Foundation.
  • Company Profile:
  • Peace Education Foundation is non-profit organization which runs chain of schools with a
  • vision to Bring out an exemplary society with responsible citizens who are enlighten with values and
  • empowered with modern skills so as to provide leaders from the nation so capable as to sit on the driving seat of the world. Currently there are 10 schools under PEF operating in various places in Kerala.
  • Due to medical reason in family had to take break from IT, as interim joined Peace Education trust.
  • Key Profile:
  • Head of Department “Peace Schools Auditing and Modernization (PSAM)”, designing and
  • implementing the system to run chains of school that is self-driven, scalable and measurable.
  • Architect, design and Implement the framework to standardize content delivery across all the schools.
  • Architect, design and implement organizational structure that is self-driven and scalable to manage
  • chains of school.
  • Identify the constraints in current model of classroom delivery protocol using blooms taxonomy and
  • recommend solutions to make it teacher friendly.
  • Design, implement “21st century skills” into curriculum through holistic learning process.
  • Collaborate with principals, vertical heads and subject coordinators to implement the framework.
  • Design policies and best practices to run network of schools based on international standards that complies with state, central govt. policies.
  • Audit; evaluate the systems that are in place to achieve the vision and objective of organization.
  • Establish priority areas, identify audit rules and parameters, communicate the findings and follow up
  • with the stakeholders.
system designcontent deliveryorganizational structurecurriculum designaudit systems

Yahoo! inc.

3 roles

Senior Production Engineer - Yahoo! FrontPage

Nov 2009Feb 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Senior system engineer supporting Yahoo! FrontPage product. Providing end-to-end support for
  • Yahoo! FrontPage, from design to operations.
  • Directly involved in capacity design and implementation of load balancing algorithms capable of
  • withstanding 650M – 700M of request per day.
  • Worked together with several prod ops on the deployment of new super pods that mitigate against
  • web Denial of Service attacks.
  • Responsible for production push of all software for Yahoo! FrontPage supporting millions of users per
  • day.
  • Managing and coordinating with the stakeholders to implement changes and conduct post
  • implementation review.
  • Follow change management process for production releases.
  • Responsible for production push of all software for Yahoo! FrontPage supporting millions of users per day following release management process.
  • Design and implement complex monitor control loops to monitor Yahoo! FrontPage to meet the SLA
  • defined.
  • Managed professional service projects; understand project requirements and recommend suitable
  • solutions.
  • Create dashboards for monitoring the product.
  • Handled and resolve all problem related to Yahoo! FrontPage and part of RCA team.
  • Conduct postmortem for gap analysis and ensured operational improvements.
  • Involved in recruiting and training.
  • Worked with all levels of management and engineering to successfully launch different projects.
capacity designload balancing algorithmsDenial of Service attacksproduction pushchange managementReliability & Observability Engineering

Senior Production Engineer - Yahoo! Messenger

Promoted

Sep 2007Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Senior system engineer supporting Yahoo! Messenger product. Providing end-to-end support for
  • Yahoo! Messenger from design to operations.
  • Consulted and assisted in setting up Alpha, Staging, QA and production environments.
  • Responsible for production push of all Yahoos! Messenger software releases handling 120M connections per second.
  • Implemented custom software solutions and tools to aid in product release automation.
  • Drove process implementation of Quality of service to provide management performance and uptime metrics for Yahoo! Messenger.
  • Interfaced with cross-functional teams (QA, Developers, Program Management) in various projects.
  • Trained new team members to aid in knowledge transfer.
production pushrelease automationquality of servicecross-functional teamsReliability & Observability Engineering

Operations Engineer

Apr 2004Sep 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Operations engineer supporting Yahoo! Messenger product.
  • Member technical staff in setting up application as well as system level monitoring.
  • Tools development for automation including design and implementation.
  • Database monitoring and designing backup model.
  • Member technical staff in Active monitoring for all service.
application monitoringautomation toolsdatabase monitoring

Vasnet communications pvt.ltd.

Senior System Administrator

Feb 2002Apr 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mangalore Area, India

  • Handling the installation, administration, recommending and approval of ISP related services.
  • Managing and administrating web servers, mail servers, billing servers, dns servers, authentication servers.
  • Manage user shell, mail, and database accounts.
  • Patching security vulnerabilities.
  • Software Rollouts, O/S Deployments for ERP System ofsy.com.
  • Troubleshooting Software Issues, Maintain Application server, Modules Deployment of ERP System
  • ofsy.com.
  • Provided Custom based Linux solution for various clients.
installationadministrationweb serversmail serversbilling servers

Sri guru infotech

Linux System Administrator

Feb 2001Feb 2002 · 1 yr · Mangalore Area, India

  • Commenced career as Linux system administrator.

Education

Malnad College of Engineering

Bachelor's degree — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1997Jan 2000