Musab Afzal

Hi, I'm a Backend Software Engineer with a keen interest in everything up-and-coming in tech.
Seattle, WA, United States
musab.afzal1@gmail.com

Education

2021 - 2022

Master of Science in Computer Science

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
CGPA: 4.00/4.00
2014 - 2018

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, Swabi, Pakistan
CGPA: 3.50/4.00
2016 - 2017

Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

Udacity

Experience

Aug 2017 - Apr 2018

Student Software Developer

  • Engineered self healing, alerts generation and monitoring capabilities in the services resulting in smooth operation under heavy load ensuring maximum uptime.
  • Migrated the services of the main application running on cloud Kubernetes cluster to a self hosted onpremKubernetes cluster built using machines provided by ASU for free, reducing the operational costs by over 90%

Java Python Apache Kafka Terraform Docker Kubernetes Redis Elasticsearch
Jan 2019 - Present

Software Development Engineer

  • Developed and maintained services that were responsible for pulling in over one terabytes of data daily spread across millions of files from our tenant’s various cloud SAAS applications and onprem databases, as initial member of one of the core backend teams of a Silicon Valley based technology startup.
  • Cost optimized one of the main resource-heavy service of the product, reducing price per vCPU per hour of the Kubernetes production cluster by more than 30%.
  • Developed and took ownership of a key service which cut down new applications and database integration time from almost a month to a week by streamlining the process via efficient interfaces.
  • Developed and took ownership of more than 20 core revenue generating and complex SAAS application integrations like Microsoft Office 365 Online and others.
  • Identified and fixed various scalability and resiliency issues right after product launch that helped the product accommodate large tenants with over 10k users, as part of the main on-call team.
  • Developed part of a service which insured even distribution of resources among the tenants.
  • Configured and maintained an onprem server as a side project which hosts Kubernetes clusters, Jenkins and Spinnaker providing CI/CD services.

Go/Golang Java Kubernetes Docker PostgresSQL Redis ElasticSearch Jenkins Kibana Grafana Prometheus Spinnaker AWS SQS AWS EKS AWS S3 GRPC Protobuf
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018

Webmaster / Team Lead

  • Led a team of 25 students, including Frontend and Backend Developers, UI Designers, Content Writers and Photographers, responsible for the development and maintenance of GIK Institute's official website.
  • Hosted a Design Sprint within the institute for the re-design of the website.
  • Got inducted in The GIK Webteam's Hall of Fame

PHP CodeIgniter MySQL Bootstrap HTML5 CSS Javascript Nginx CentOS
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018

Freelance Full Stack Developer

  • Working as a freelancer on various Web Development projects provided by international clients.
  • Earned the most prestigious, Top Rated badge through consistent successful completion of job
  • Consistent job success rate of more than 90%

NodeJS ExpressJS Bootstrap HTML5 CSS Javascript WordPress Python PHP Arduino Raspberry Pi
June 2017 - Aug 2017

Summer Intern

  • Loading Real Time Twitter Tweets using Flume in Hadoop Framework and performing sentiment analysis by using dictionary of rated words.

Hadoop Flume SQL

Skills

Languages
Java Go/Golang C/C++ Python Javascript BASH SQL HTML CSS PHP
Backend
Kubernetes Docker Apache Kafka Kibana Grafana Prometheus PostgresSQL ElasticSearch Redis NodeJS ExpressJS Web Services (REST) MongoDB MySQL GRPC
Deployment / Cloud
Spinnaker Jenkins Terraform AWS EKS AWS SQS AWS EC2 AWS S3 Google Kubernetes Engine
Frontend
ReactJS React Native Redux Sketch JQuery Bootstrap HTML CSS
Machine Learning
Tensorflow Keras OpenCV
Robotics
Robotics Operating System Arduino Raspberry Pi

Achievements

Hosted Design Sprint for redesigning of GIK's official website.
Qualified to Regional Finals in ACM ICPC 2016.
On Dean's Honor Roll for scoring Distinction in 5 semesters.
Earned Top Rated Badge on UpWork.com through consistent successful completion of jobs.
Awarded Full Scholarship for undergraduate studies.
Musab Afzal 2021