Mukthar Maniyar Ahmed — CTO

Serving as distinguished engineer with focus on strong design engineering principles across stateless micro-services, distributed computing at scale, helping engineering org learn, grow and excel in their daily executions. An individual contributor with a sharp focus on increasing market footprint and customer value proposition. Strong exposure to various domains like SSE/Cloud-Security, Ad Networks, B2C E-Commerce platform, Virtualization and VDI (Virtual Desktop Interface), SDDC clouds offering.Tags associated with my skills include; - BigData tech stack - Hadoop, kafka, spark, mapreduce, secor.- Java, OO Java, writing core libs & APIs- Java back-end development- Cloud platforms like AWS and Redshift and Azure and its supported tools/frameworks.- Worked on TDD (Test driven framework) using frameworks like TestNG, ReportingNG with code coverage and instrumentation frameworks like JaCoCo and Sonar.Additional knowledge of;- Jersey RestFul services for hosted/exposing applications for external use.- Apache falcon- Apache Lens- Source code and version control system like GitHub, CVS, MKSSI and Subversion.- Scrum and agile management tools like Jira and Bugzilla.- Database exposures on MySQL, SQLite and Postgres.- CI systems like Jenkins.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and Big Data expert with strong software engineering skills.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 20 yrs

Skills

Cloud Security
Design Engineering
Architecture
Cloud Architecture
Software Development
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Data Engineering

Career Highlights

Expert in Cloud Security and CASB solutions.
Proficient in Big Data technologies and data engineering.
Strong experience in microservices and distributed computing.

Work Experience

Skyhigh Security

Distinguished Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

Senior Architect (1 yr 1 mo)

Cloud Software Architect (2 yrs 2 mos)

McAfee Enterprise

Cloud Software Architect (4 mos)

VMware

Staff Software Engineer (Platform, BigData, VDI, SDDC, DaaS) (3 yrs 8 mos)

Myntra

Technical Lead - Data platform (1 yr 2 mos)

Technical Lead - Data engineering (5 mos)

ADOF Games

CTO (3 mos)

GoCabs

Chief Technical Advisor (2 yrs 1 mo)

InMobi

Technical Lead / Lead Dev (framework & tools development program) (3 yrs 5 mos)

Tech Lead (1 yr 5 mos)

Tech lead, Ad-Relevance (1 yr 4 mos)

Senior Test Engineer (10 mos)

McAfee Inc.

Software engineer (1 yr 11 mos)

Hewlett-Packard Labs

Release engineering and tools framework (2 mos)

Trilogy

Software Engineer, framework development and release engineering (1 yr 6 mos)

SNS Technology

Software Engineer (1 yr)

Education

B.E at Visvesvaraya Technological University

High school at St. Philomina’s, Ballari

Mukthar Maniyar Ahmed

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Cloud Security and CASB solutions.
Proficient in Big Data technologies and data engineering.
Strong experience in microservices and distributed computing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and Big Data expert with strong software engineering skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityDesign EngineeringArchitectureCloud ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentBig DataCloud ComputingData Engineering

Other Skills

AdvertisingAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)ApacheApache KafkaApache SparkBash scriptingCC++CASBCASB solutionsDLPDaaSData AnalysisData pipeline

About

Experience

20 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Skyhigh security

3 roles

Distinguished Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for CASB Microsoft O365 Graph Delta API Integrations for DLP
Taking care of other CASB services like Skyhigh dashboard and governance services
Taking care of design of new services, design optimisation of existing services, tech debt programs and Engineering optimisations

CASBMicrosoft O365 Graph Delta APIDLPdesign optimizationengineering optimizationsCloud Security+1

Senior Architect

Jan 2024 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

- Responsible for migrating Skyhigh CASB DLP for Microsoft O365 OneDrive and SharePointOnline to Graph delta API framework

Skyhigh CASB DLPMicrosoft O365Graph delta API frameworkCloud SecurityArchitecture

Cloud Software Architect

Apr 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

McAfee cloud is now Skyhigh Security...
Primarily owning CASB solutions for Microsoft Office365 CSPs.
Handling end-to-end design and implementation challenges, writing CASB real-time DLP at scale, with stateless micro-service over cloud managed and hosted tech stack, inclusive of large scale Redis and ElasticSearch clusters.

CASB solutionsMicrosoft Office365stateless micro-servicesRedisElasticSearchCloud Architecture+1

Mcafee enterprise

Cloud Software Architect

Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CASB solutions for all CSPs

Vmware

Staff Software Engineer (Platform, BigData, VDI, SDDC, DaaS)

Mar 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Working for Horizon DaaS and Horizon Cloud on Azure platform.
Keywords: BigData, Datapipeline, VDI, SDDC, DaaS, Datapipeline, monitoring, licensing and reporting.

Myntra

2 roles

Technical Lead - Data platform

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

With core responsibilities of implementing data pipelines, frameworks and tools at the data pipeline/ingestion side. Design and develop automated data veracity checks, automated data reconciliations and event data relay pipeline.
Tech stack includes;
Java core/advanced
Scala
Apache Spark
Apache Kafka
Hive/Hive metastore
Rest services tech stack like Dropwizard and Jersey framework
BigData pipeline development
Amazon cloud, EMR, EC2 and S3.
Scripting languages like Perl, shell and Golang.

BigDataData pipelineVDISDDCDaaSBig Data+1

Technical Lead - Data engineering

Jun 2016 – Nov 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

At BI/Data Analytics team as a tech lead with diverse responsibilities.
Skills which I bring-in, include;
Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Java, Spring based rest services and rest data services, GoLang, performance benchmarking - distributed data systems, code coverage tools such as Corbetura, JaCoCo.

Adof games

CTO

Oct 2016 – Jan 2017 · 3 mos · Bangalore

Associated with some revolutionary/awesome stuff on user segmentation and more...

Gocabs

Chief Technical Advisor

Jan 2016 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Shaping up the tech stack and our customer offerings, right from public facing site to application for internal administration to applications business layer.
Active contribution on business expansion plans and fan outs of our inventory towards other business opportunities.

data pipelinesautomated data veracity checksJavaScalaApache SparkApache Kafka+2

Inmobi

4 roles

Technical Lead / Lead Dev (framework & tools development program)

Jan 2013 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Design, develop and test Java based back-end applications and data reporting pipelines/applications.
Tags associated with my skills include;
Java, OO Java, writing core libs & APIs
Java back-end development
Hadoop,
Pig MapReduce
TestNG, ReportNG
Additional knowledge of;
Jersey RestFul services for hosted/exposing applications for external use.
Apache falcon
Apache Lens

Apache SparkApache KafkaJavaSpringGoLangData Engineering+1

Tech Lead

Jan 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

Tech Lead @ InMobi with skills and exposure on designing and developing back frameworks and tools, running on hadoop as data processing pipelines and other back end applications for data analytics and data presentation.

Tech lead, Ad-Relevance

Jan 2011 – May 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

Tech lead for for Ad-Relevance Group.

Senior Test Engineer

Mar 2010 – Jan 2011 · 10 mos

With responsibilities including validation and release engg framework of TagUniverse-BI product. Working on products developed as part of business intelligence which sit on Hadoop clusters.

Mcafee inc.

Software engineer

Apr 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

Worked for Risk and compliance BU with responsibilities on the quality engineering view of it.
Core responsibilities include; design and develop release and validation framework.

Hewlett-packard labs

Release engineering and tools framework

Jan 2008 – Mar 2008 · 2 mos

Working for STSD HP ISO, Bangalore on HP server for iLO interface with responsibilities of building firmware validation framework.

Trilogy

Software Engineer, framework development and release engineering

Jun 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

Building CI/release and test validation framework.
Tech stack includes;
Perl
Java

Sns technology

Software Engineer

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

Worked as QE, more on LabManager, perl backend automation, developing frameworks for both UI and non-UI/backend business intelligence products using Skill-Test, QTP and Perl & Shell scripting.