Imran Iqbal
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Instacart
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolImran Iqbal is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating resilient, large-scale systems across companies such as Instacart, Shopify, IBM, and Canopy Growth. He brings deep systems and back-end expertise, evidenced by long-term open-source contributions and maintenance work on libuv and Node.js where he fixed OS-specific I/O bugs and improved cross-platform compatibility. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and team leadership, he has held senior and lead roles that span software development, SRE, and platform reliability. At Instacart he transitioned from senior software roles into SRE, reflecting a practical focus on production stability and developer productivity. His background includes low-level JVM and async I/O experience, which informs pragmatic solutions to tricky concurrency and portability issues. Known for quietly improving foundational infrastructure, he tends to address subtle platform edge cases that most teams overlook.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
ICASEngineering Software, Engineering Software at Carleton UniversityGloucester High School
English, Urdu
Github Skills (9)
asynchronous10
c1710
aix10
filesystem-events10
unix10
c1110
async10
testing10
networking9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
libuv/libuv
Nov 2015 - May 2021
Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Imran primarily focused on improving the libuv library's compatibility with AIX, a specific operating system. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to file system events, specifically addressing issues arising from AIX's implementation of `POLLHDRUP` and `ahafs`. They also worked on code cleanup and optimization, including the use of appropriate data types. Further, the user added documentation and addressed inconsistencies in the libuv codebase.
unixunicornsasynchronouswindowsio
imran-iq/libuv
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:157 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 5 months
asynchronouswindowslinuxcross-platformasync
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