Akrama Mirza
Software Engineer at Apple
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAkrama Mirza is a software engineer with roughly a decade of experience building high-performance networking, RPC, and infrastructure systems, currently focused on traffic engineering at Apple. He has driven service-mesh and RPC work at Facebook and built networking and deployment automation tools during internships at Uber and Lyft, blending low-level systems thinking with production-grade service design. His open-source contributions include deep improvements to Facebook's fbthrift C++ server and Rocket transport, showing attention to protocol-level performance and request prioritization. Earlier roles span Android platform and mobile app engineering where he shipped latency and UX improvements at scale, highlighting a habit of turning performance bottlenecks into measurable wins. A Waterloo Computer Engineering alumnus, he pairs rigorous engineering foundations with hands-on system optimization across both cloud and device landscapes. Colleagues would note his pattern of shipping pragmatic, test-backed changes that reduce operational friction and improve real-world latency.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Old Strathcona Academic High SchoolBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
thrift10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/fbthrift
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Akrama primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Thrift library, specifically improving the C++2 server implementation. They refactored and optimized stream handling by introducing new interfaces and classes for stream element encoding and improving write batching. Furthermore, they added tests and implemented new features such as adding a parameter for write batching byte size. Additionally, they worked on the Rocket transport layer by adding defcon priority to RpcOptions to classify requests based on impact.
cppthrift
AkramaMirza/snapchat
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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