Zulfiqar Ali

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure.
Expertise in Big Data and NoSQL technologies.
Leadership in developing critical media platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Big Data expert with extensive experience in media technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingBig Data

Other Skills

NoSQLCloud InfrastructureApache-HBaseHadoopLicense ManagementSoftware DevelopmentDistributed SystemsSpringJavaJava Enterprise EditionAgile Methodologies

About

Looking for topnotch engineers/managers who have passion for building infrastructure at scale. Drop me a mail - zulfiali@google.com

Experience

19 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Leader

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Uber

Engineering Leader

Aug 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Inmobi

3 roles

Director - Platforms (Big Data, Machine Learning and Cloud)

Promoted

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Senior Engineering Manager - Big Data Platforms

Jan 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Engineering Manager

Nov 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Yahoo r&d

5 roles

Engineering Manager

Jan 2014 – Nov 2014 · 10 mos

Owner of multiple critical platforms in Yahoo’s cloud infrastructure. Managed multiple projects on Big Data and NoSQL technologies.
Managed critical components in Yahoo Mobile Search Platform that enforces web resources sharing, fetch documents from web, enforce Politeness Policy and provide document caching. In a span of two quarters this platform has fetched 14 billions documents from web.
Managed feeds acquisition platform (part of Yahoo Media Platform) that fetches RSS, MRSS, NewsML and Atom feeds from premium content providers (Reuters, ABC, BBC etc.)
Led the development of ‘Link Enhancr’ service that enhances Link/URL into snippet/preview of target webpage. This service powers all links enhancement happening in Yahoo Mail.

Big DataNoSQLCloud InfrastructureCloud Computing

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

Designed and developed an Apache-HBase based Tracking & Monitoring service for the content pipeline. Tracking & monitoring service handles 10 million+ articles, images, videos and listings daily.
Architected and developed License Management System that provides creates licenses and provides license enforcement solutions for digital content. This system uses Saleforce for license creation,Hadoop for license processing, distributed hash table for publishing licenses, and Vespa search engine for enforcing licenses for digital content.

Apache-HBaseHadoopLicense ManagementBig DataCloud Computing

Tech Lead

Promoted

Jan 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

Designed and implemented Feeds Processing Solution for Newspaper Consortium project. This integrated solution empowers 400+ local newspapers in US to send/process/monitor/publish their local news feeds in news.yahoo.com.