Arshad Mahmood
Principal Engineer Systems Architect at Oracle
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArshad Mahmood is a Principal Engineer and Systems Architect with 11+ years in software and telecom engineering and a multi-decade background designing resilient network and cloud solutions. Based in Morrisville, NC, he currently drives architecture and deployment of private and public cloud platforms at Oracle after leading virtualization, NFV, and cloud-edge initiatives at Cisco. He blends deep systems-level expertise—including performance tuning with SR-IOV/DPDK, hybrid cloud migration, and secure cloud designs—with hands-on backend development skills demonstrated by contributions to the widely used open-source Corda blockchain (dependency and serialization modernization). A decisive problem-solver and organized leader, Arshad is comfortable translating customer use cases into production automation and measurable performance outcomes. His technical palette spans Rust, MLOps, distributed systems, and long-standing telecom protocol experience, reflecting both academic training from USC and practical delivery across enterprise-scale projects.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Systems Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronic Engineering at NED University of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (13)
kotlin10
serialization10
openjdk10
data-serialization10
gradlew10
oraclejdk10
jdk1710
corda10
gradle10
distributed-ledger-technology9
kryo9
distributed-ledger9
dokka8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
corda/corda
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 144 commits, 17 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Arshad primarily focused on upgrading the Corda project's dependencies, including Gradle, Kotlin, and JDK versions, to newer versions. They addressed compatibility issues arising from these upgrades, such as the removal of JavaScript scripting from the JDK and changes in JCE provider support. Additionally, the user modified code related to serialization and addressed issues within the Kryo serialization framework used by Corda.
blockchainblockchain-networkcordasmart-contractskotlin
help-lixin/corda
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Contributions:38 commits in 2 months
blockchainblockchain-networkcordasmart-contracts
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