Yusuf Birader

Senior Software Engineer

Leicester, United Kingdom5 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable collaborative web applications.
  • Proficient in cloud infrastructure and real-time monitoring.
  • Strong background in patent law and software engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with expertise in cloud infrastructure and collaborative systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

React.jsGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Ruby On RailsJavascriptRubyNext.jsPatent Law

Other Skills

DatabasesKubernetesDebuggingTypeScriptNode.jsTerraformRelational DatabasesHTMLGrafanaAmazon Web Services (AWS)StraceConcurrent ProgrammingGo (Programming Language)Elastic Stack (ELK)Rails

About

Software engineer with a deep interest in systems and infrastructure. My aim is to build systems that solve meaningful problems and make people’s lives easier.

Experience

5 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Symphony collaboration

Software Engineer, Co-Creator

Jan 2023Jan 2024 · 1 yr

  • Created an open source, serverless runtime for building collaborative web applications.
  • Integrated a CRDT-based conflict resolution mechanism with real-time state propagation.
  • Built a custom load-testing tool which simulates N virtual collaborating users.
  • Redesigned backend architecture to allow for horizontal scaling to tens of thousands of users.
  • Engineered a custom backend orchestrator and reverse proxy which dynamically schedules
  • collaborative sessions.
  • Setup real-time monitoring with Prometheus and created a UI with React, Tailwind CSS and Grafana.
  • Implemented a persistence layer with snapshotting that periodically persists state to Google Cloud
  • Storage.
  • Built and published the Symphony client library as an NPM package.
  • Automated the deployment and configuration of the Symphony runtime on Google Cloud Platform
  • (GCP) including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage down to a
  • one-click deploy using Terraform via the Symphony CLI.
  • Reduced K8s pod cold-start time by 10x using balloon pods with K8s PriorityClass resources.
  • Developed a security model in line with the principle of least privilege, by utilising namespacing,
  • configuring K8s Role-based access control (RBAC), Google Workload Identity, and creating
  • private subnets with VPC peering.
  • Authored a case study on Symphony’s problem domain, design decisions, and challenges.
React.jsDatabasesKubernetesGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)DebuggingTypeScript+7

Self employed

Software Engineer

Jan 2021Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · Remote

  • Client projects worked on include:
  • 37signals, Security, Performance and Infrastructure (SIP)
  • . Re-engineered spam filtering infrastructure based on Rspamd to allow configuration including spam-rules to be modified dynamically with zero-downtime.
  • . Designed and implemented a rolling account log, with fuzzy search allowing spammy signups to be found and marked as fake across all 37signals’ services with the click of a button.
  • . Optimised internal tooling including improving load times of our billing dashboard by 40% and implementing primary owner transfers for HEY for Domain accounts via our internal dashboard.
  • . Improved Basecamp project export pipeline performance by 20%.
  • . Responded to security reports from ethical hackers as part of 37signals’ bug bounty program.
  • Independently released pzip, an open-source concurrent zip archiver, 15x faster than Info-ZIP, written in Go.
  • Hardwary- Hacker News for Hardware, which served 30k requests per day at its peak (Rails, PostgreSQL).
  • Terminal- A web-based tool for debugging webhooks (Express, Next.js, PostgreSQL MongoDB, RabbitMQ).
  • ipromise- a custom Promise polyfill conforming to the Promise/A+ specification and a custom async/await polyfill.
StraceRubyDatabasesDebuggingRelational DatabasesHTML+9

D young & co llp

Trainee Patent Attorney

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Prepared and prosecuted UK, US, and European patent applications primarily in relation to software-defined networking (SDN), distributed databases, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Implemented text-processing scripts in Ruby improving time-efficiency of billable legal work by 20%.
Patent Law

Freshfields bruckhaus deringer

Summer Vacation Scheme

Jun 2020Jul 2020 · 1 mo · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Received a training contract offer

Norton rose fulbright

Campus Ambassador

Sep 2019Jun 2020 · 9 mos

Education

University of Warwick

BSc — Physics

Jan 2018Jan 2021

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