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General Information

Full Name Zuhair AlSader
Languages Arabic, English
Location Toronto, ON, Canada

Experience

  • 11/2022 - 4/2024
    Cloud Storage Engineer
    Koor Technologies, Inc. Remotely from Toronto, Canada
    • Provided customer support for Rook Ceph storage clusters.
    • Developed a data control center for Rook using Protobuf and Nuxt
    • Built a Kubernetes operator to simplify running Rook.
    • Wrote tutorials about using Rook Ceph, and integrating with Knative
  • 11/2021 - 10/2022
    Storage Software Engineer
    Seagate. Remotely from Toronto, Canada
    • Lead a team of 3 to design and test a C/C++ library that integrates Intel's DAOS NVMe storage engine with Ceph's Rados and Seagate's CORTX to support Amazon's S3 API. This makes it easier for S3 users to adopt DAOS and CORTX in a flexible unified open-source storage system.
  • 6/2021 - 11/2021
    Software Engineer
    Tophatter. Remotely from Toronto, Canada
    • Used Ruby on Rails, ReactJS and React Native to introduce a new TikTok-style video feed and AB-test it, improving revenue by 13%
  • 6/2020 - 5/2021
    Software Engineer
    Jerry. Toronto, Canada
    • Used ReactJS and GraphQL to improve CRM for sales agents serving 200k+ users reducing user processing time by 20%.
    • Moved legacy code from Kubernetes to Serverless architecture, improving scalability and code maintainability through a monorepo.
  • 9/2017 - 6/2020
    Research Assistant
    University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Canada
    • Lead Research in distributed systems, message queues and MPI. Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, ActiveMQ, Redis and others
    • Teaching assistant for: Distributed systems and Operating Systems classes
  • 6/2015 - 8/2017
    Lead Software Engineer
    Endeavor Pal, LLC. Nablus, Palestine
    • Lead a team of 4 to develop a web and mobile application integrated with social media, SMS, and payment APIs. Used by 100+ customers

Education

Awards and Activities

  • 2018 - 2019
    Chair of IEEE Student Branch at the University of Waterloo
  • 2012 - 2016
    Maintained Honors Degree throughout my study at An-Najah National University
  • 2016 - 2017
    Local Lead and Mentor at NASA Space Apps Challenge in Palestine, which was a hackathon with 40+ attendees
  • 2014
    Participated in IEEEXtreme Programming Contest. Achieved 83rd place worldwide

Skills and Interests

Programming Languages C, C++, Go, JavaScript (+ TypeScript), Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, Bash
Storage Development Rook, Koor Storage Distribution, Amazon S3, API, Ceph, Intel DAOS, Seagate CORTX, Minio
Web Development React, NodeJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, CakePHP
Systems Kubernetes, Serverless architecture, message-oriented middleware, linux cluster management, distributed and parallel systems, software-defined networking, system design and evaluation, systems security, android development
Other Fast learner, team player, agile development, team management, git