Gihad Murad
CTO at Uken Games
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGihad Murad is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems for gaming and ad tech. He has led platform and architecture initiatives at Uken Games, moving monolithic backends to microservices and designing data and services platforms that process hundreds of millions of events per day. Gihad has hands-on experience with AWS, Spark, Kafka/Kinesis, Scala, JVM services, Kubernetes and observability tooling, and has run cross-company projects that achieved 2 million requests per second across time zones. Earlier he engineered a real-time bidder handling billions of daily requests and contributed to the C-based statsite statsd implementation to extend metric capabilities. Colleagues describe him as a builder who pairs strategic leadership with deep implementation skills and a knack for making complex distributed systems observable and operable. Based in Toronto, he blends product-minded architecture with a developer’s attention to clean, scalable code.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, IT, Information Technology, IT at Opet College (Brazil)Computer Science Honours, Computer Science Honours at University of Guelph
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (13)
c1710
opentelemetry10
javas10
configuration-management10
instrumentation10
statsd10
c1110
redis10
java10
testing9
bytebuddy9
spring-boot8
swt6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
statsite/statsite
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
C implementation of statsd
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gihad focused on extending the functionality of statsite, a statsd implementation. They added features to configure and include extended counters, allowing for more detailed metric collection. The contributions included modifications to the configuration files, the core logic for handling connections and formatting output, and tests to validate the new configurations. These changes improve the flexibility and data reporting capabilities of the statsite project.
metricsstatsdgraphitecounteraggregated-metrics
gihad/streamer
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021
Converting Streams into HLS for playback on Chromecast devices using FFMPEG + NGINX
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years
rtmpnginxlibfdk-aacchromecast-deviceschromecast
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