Raza Hussain

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 6+ years in distributed systems and scalability
  • Led major cloud features at Google
  • Developed scalable solutions for Salesforce
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Open Source Development expert with a focus on scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCloud ComputingData EngineeringWeb DevelopmentOpen Source Development

Other Skills

C++PythonSpannerInternal Google InfrastructureGCPJavaCassandraAWSApache ZookeeperApache KafkaRuby on RailsPostgreSQLHTMLCSSJavaScript

About

Passionate about solving distributed systems and scalability problems. I have 6+ years of experience working on large scale distributed systems and launching production features. Email: razahuss10@gmail.com.

Experience

8 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Google

Software Engineer

Jul 2022May 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Part of the GCP Cloud Spanner team. Developed and launched multiple cloud spanner platform features ranging from schema enhancements, billing enhancements, multi region configurations enhancements.
  • Led the development and launch of a custom multi region configuration for a large GCP customer with custom schema and custom replica management support. https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configurations
  • Led the development and launch of multiple features for the Cloud Spanner Tiered Storage (March 2025) product release: HDD + SSD billing, metrics, limits enforcement, managed autoscaler support. https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/tiered-storage, https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/release-notes#March_10_2025.
  • Tech stack: C++, Python, Spanner, Internal Google Infrastructure.
C++PythonSpannerInternal Google InfrastructureDistributed SystemsCloud Computing

Salesforce

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2021Jul 2022 · 11 mos

  • Part of Einstein Activity Capture (EAC) team.
  • Built and optimized data pipelines and spark streaming jobs. Improved bulk data transfer speeds from AWS to Salesforce on-prem databases during onboarding large datasets to EAC.
  • Tech Stack: Java, Cassandra, AWS, Apache Zookeeper, Apache Kafka.
JavaCassandraAWSApache ZookeeperApache KafkaData Engineering+1

Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Associate Software Engineer

Jan 2019Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Software Engineer Intern

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Software Engineering Intern @ Commerce Cloud Infrastructure team
  • Summary:
  • I worked on re-designing & implementing a much more scalable version of the current alerting and monitoring tool central to the business of several Commerce Cloud teams at Salesforce.
  • Improved the scalability of the system to handle around 100K requests every minute as compared to just 20K previously.
  • The new system will be rolled out into production for the upcoming 2018 holiday season.
Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLHTMLCSSJavaScriptWeb Development

Personal programmer

Full Stack Software Developer

Jul 2017Jul 2017 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Developed a student & staff management system for a school named Brilliant Minds Academy in the Bay Area
  • Executed the whole project successfully from beginning to the end, including but not limited to: Information Gathering from the client, Planning the outlook & contents of the website, Design, Development, Testing & Delivery, and finally, Deployment on Heroku servers
  • Completed the whole project, from beginning to end, within 2 weeks
  • The system is up and running in production & being used daily since 15th August 2017
  • Languages (Backend): Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL
  • Languages (Frontend): HTML, CSS, Javascript
HTMLCSSJavaScriptPHPWeb Development

Facebook

Open Source Developer

Mar 2017Mar 2017 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Contributed code to an internal Facebook database management system, i.e. RocksDB
  • Code was reviewed by Facebook Engineers and merged into Facebook codebase
  • Added support for dynamic updates to a particular option variable in their codebase in a multi-threaded parallel environment
  • Changed the behavior of a variable from being static to being dynamic
  • Wrote unit test cases for the changes I made
  • Resolved the following issue: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/1930
  • Language: C++
  • Links to my Pull Requests (PRs) that got merged into the Facebook codebase:
  • https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2004
  • https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2012
  • https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2016
Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLHTMLCSSJavaScriptWeb Development

Homebrew

Open Source Developer

Mar 2017Mar 2017 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Homebrew is a widely used package manager for the macOS
  • I resolved several brew warnings & added test cases for several brew commands
  • In total, 9 of my Pull Requests (PRs) were merged into Homebrew's codebase
  • Language: Ruby
  • Link: https://github.com/Homebrew
C++Open Source Development

Github

Open Source Developer

Feb 2017Feb 2017 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Project name: Bugzilla Board
  • Added several features to this chrome browser extension used for easy dynamic view of webpages.
  • ~200 lines of code contributed
  • Language: AngularJS
  • Link to the code: https://github.com/bendl/bugzilla-board/pull/11/files
  • Link to the project: Link: https://github.com/bendl/bugzilla-board
RubyOpen Source Development

Georgia state university

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2017May 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Instructor of record (Lecturer) for the following course:
  • Course: Fundamentals of Website Development (CSC 2320)
  • Teaching undergraduate college students the basics of web development using HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lab Lecturer for the following course:
  • Course: Systems Level Programming (CSC 3320)
  • Linux, Shell Scripting
  • Grading exams and programming assignments.

Lahore university of management sciences

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2015Dec 2015 · 4 mos · Lahore, Pakistan

  • Course: Databases(CS-340).
  • Responsibilities:
  • (I) Holding weekly tutorials and lectures.
  • (II) Grading programming assignments and quizzes.
AngularJSOpen Source Development

Education

Georgia State University

Master’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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