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Software Engineer

IBM Datastax

• Develop and support the Datastax infrastructure using Kubernetes operators and Terraform

Software Engineer

Devzero.io

• Integrated Rook Ceph storage system into Devzero workspaces using terraform, helm, Kubernetes Python API & Rook-Ceph APIs, replacing AWS EBS, EFS and S3, and reducing storage costs by 60%
• Introduced OpenFGA with Tailscale's network acls to control access to resources allowing the company to serve enterprise customers.
• Handled infrastructure migrations & incidents quickly and efficiently.

Cloud Storage Engineer

Koor.tech

• Provided customer support for Rook Ceph storage clusters.
• Built a Kubernetes operator to simplify installing Rook.
• Developed a data control center for Rook using Protobuf and Nuxt
• Wrote tutorials about using Rook Ceph, and integrating with Knative

Storage Software Engineer

Seagate

• 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 Gateway (RGW) to support Amazon's S3 API. This makes it easier for S3 users to switch to DAOS in a flexible unified open-source storage system.
• My pull requests were merged into Ceph and DAOS codebases.

Software Engineer

Jerry.ai

• Used ReactJS and GraphQL to improve CRM for sales agents serving 200k+ users reducing user processing time by 20%
• Migrated legacy code from monolithic to Serverless architecture, improving scalability and code maintainability through a monorepo

Research Assistant

University of Waterloo

• Lead Research in distributed systems, message queues and MPI
• Experienced with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, ActiveMQ, Redis
• Teaching assistant for Distributed Systems and Operating Systems courses

Lead Software Engineer

Endeavor Technology

• Led a team of 4 in developing a web and mobile application.
• Integrated with social media, SMS, and payment APIs.
• Application used by 100+ customers.

Masters in Computer Science

University of Waterloo

GPA: 90.50%

Supervisors: Samer Al-Kiswany and Tim Brecht,
Waterloo Advanced Systems Lab & Systems and Networking Group

Thesis: Optimizing MPI Collective Operations for Cloud Deployments

• Advanced Distributed Systems
• Empirical System Evaluation
• Empirical Software Evolution
• Randomized Algorithms
• Quantum Algorithms
• Quantum Information Processing
• Quantum Error Correction

Storage in Containers for Containers: an introduction to Rook Ceph

Ceph Days Vancouver

COOL: A Cloud-Optimized Structure for MPI Collective Operations

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)

Blog Posts

Authored technical blogs related to Ceph

• Running Serverless ML With Knative And Ceph
• Serverless Storage With Knative And Ceph
• If You Run Ceph With Only 3 Nodes, You Are Asking For Trouble