Summary
Daniyal Parveez is a backend-focused Software Engineering Specialist with a deep interest in large-scale distributed systems and over 1.5 years in product-focused backend roles (part of a broader 9-year professional timeline). He has shipped data-platform and observability features at companies like RudderStack and Tekion, built RESTful wrappers for Databricks/Athena, and added secure Python support for transformation engines. A Purdue MS graduate and former graduate researcher, he explored adversarial attacks and spectrogram-based defenses for ASR systems, achieving sub-3 ms defense execution—an indicator of his emphasis on both performance and security. Now at xAI, he combines strong computer science fundamentals with practical experience in CI/CD, data governance, and API integrations, and brings an early-life curiosity for systems (started learning C++ at 12) that still drives his appetite for hard distributed-systems challenges.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Science (PCMC), Science (PCMC) at Delhi Public School - Bangalore South
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Purdue University
English, Hindi