M Zafar is a Senior QA Engineer and Lead/Staff SDET with a decade of experience assuring resilience and performance of distributed systems, databases, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platforms. He specializes in building scalable automation frameworks, hardening CI/CD pipelines, and driving chaos, stress, and fuzz testing to validate real-world reliability. At Yugabyte he contributed tooling and tests for Kubernetes operators and core DB workflows, and his open-source projects—like YBFuzz and ybchaos—reflect a focus on uncovering subtle query engine and fault-tolerance issues. He also authored a cloud resource cleanup tool that saved over $1M in infrastructure costs, showing a pragmatic eye for operational efficiency. Comfortable leading teams and mentoring engineers, he blends deep systems-level testing expertise with developer productivity improvements. Based in Ujjain, India, he pairs hands-on engineering with a habit of publishing tools and learnings to the community.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore
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