Gufran Mirza
Senior Staff Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGufran Mirza is a Senior Staff Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building secure, scalable cloud and infrastructure systems. He has led security and infrastructure work across startups and enterprise teams—most recently at Palo Alto Networks after Protect AI’s acquisition—and co-founded a stealth startup focused on CPU-level TEEs and confidential computing. His background spans Terraform providers, Kubernetes operators, service mesh implementations, and high-throughput microservices, with hands-on experience debugging production systems and improving client-side SSR stability in open-source React/GraphQL tooling. An entrepreneur who also founded a developer-focused Q&A and blogging platform, he blends deep systems-level thinking with practical product delivery and a knack for fixing subtle runtime issues that surface at scale.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at George Mason University - College of Engineering and ComputingJunior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education at Seva Sadan Higher Secondry SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (16)
graphql10
ss10
server-side-rendering10
debug10
javascript10
nodejs10
nextjs10
server-rendering10
apollo10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
react10
server-side10
redux9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Sly777/ran
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
:zap: RAN! React . GraphQL . Next.js Toolkit :zap: - SEO-Ready, Production-Ready, SSR, Hot-Reload, CSS-in-JS, Caching, CLI commands and more...
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gufran primarily focused on upgrading and maintaining the application's frontend and backend dependencies, including the Apollo client. They addressed a critical bug related to the Apollo client's state management during server-side rendering, and implemented a network status indicator. These contributions are indicative of the user's involvement in ensuring the stability and functionality of the application's core features.
seo-readynext-jsreloadproduction-readyran
gufranmirza/fluentbit-grpc-events-pipeline
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 1 branch in 4 months
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