Amer Ather
Senior Performance Engineer at UC Santa Cruz
Saratoga, California, United States
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Top SchoolAmer Ather is a Senior Performance Engineer and Cloud Performance Architect at Netflix with over 11 years of experience designing and tuning massively scalable, cloud-native microservices. He brings deep OS and systems expertise from a long tenure at Sun/Oracle—contributing to ZFS, DTrace, zones/containers and multicore architecture—and applies that knowledge to benchmarking, profiling, and cost-reduction efforts in AWS and OpenStack environments. Skilled across low-level technologies (kernels, drivers, SPARC/x64 assembly), observability tooling (tracing, perf, kprobes, SystemTap) and distributed systems (Cassandra, Netflix OSS), he breeds reliability into platforms through tooling and architecture review. An active open-source maintainer (Vector, PCP, AutoBench, Abyss) and part-time instructor in Linux performance and device drivers, he blends research-grade diagnostics with practical developer self-service to accelerate engineering velocity. Notably, he partners with AWS on roadmap development, bringing vendor-level collaboration to solve production-scale performance and cost challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering, B.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering at NED University of Engineering and TechnologyB.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering, B.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering at The University of Toledo
Urdu
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Github Skills (16)
monitoring10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
visualization10
go10
dashboard10
prometheus10
grafana10
influxdb10
visualize10
business-intelligence10
analytics10
mysql10
composable10
observability9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aather/autobench
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:65 commits, 55 pushes in 1 year 10 months
aather/cloudstat
May 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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