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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
- 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
- 2017 - 2020
MMath in Computer Science
University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Canada
- GPA: 90.50% (A+)
- Thesis: Optimizing MPI Collective Operations for Cloud Deployments
- Supervisors
- Research labs
- 2012 - 2016
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 |