Awsaf Sakif
Performance Test Engineer, IBM Cloud Pak For Data
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAwsaf Sakif is a performance-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building and automating benchmarking and performance pipelines, currently driving Jenkins-based workload automation for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. He has deep hands-on expertise with OpenJ9 JIT performance measurement, cross-platform server maintenance, and observability tooling like Grafana, gained through progressive roles at IBM from developer to team lead. Comfortable across full-stack tasks, he has prior frontend experience shipping AngularJS features at TickTrade and has built React-based benchmark launchers and scripting to automate complex profiling workflows. A University of Toronto Computer Science graduate (3.78 GPA), he pairs careful analytical skills with operational ownership—evident in managing 25+ heterogeneous servers and being the on-call go-to for performance regressions and intern mentoring. An underrated strength is his knack for turning benchmarking infrastructure into repeatable CI-driven practices that surface actionable insights for JVM and cloud platform teams.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, CGPA: 3.78, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, CGPA: 3.78 at University of Toronto
English, Bengali
Github Skills (23)
test-results10
aggregate10
garbage-collector10
jvm10
virtual-machine10
interpreter10
java10
throughput10
openjdk10
footprint10
omr10
gocd10
extensible10
jenkins10
eclipse10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
awsafsakif/openjdk-test-tools
Jan 2019 - May 2023
Tools for openjdk testing (not to be confused with stf which is the tooling for system tests)
Contributions:4 PRs, 69 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 4 months
system-teststestingstfopenjdkjava
awsafsakif/openjdk-tests
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Home of test infrastructure for AdoptOpenJDK builds
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
test-infrastructurebuildsadoptopenjdkinfrastructurekotlin
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