M Zafar
Senior QA Engineer at ClickHouse
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolM 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.
11 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
Github Skills (38)
big-data10
analytics10
olap10
mpp10
sql10
ai10
database-management10
embedded10
rust10
cpp10
cloud-native10
dbms10
clickhouse10
database10
reportportal9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yugabyte/cloud-resource-cleanup
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Tool that allows you to delete and stop resources across different clouds
Contributions:18 reviews, 50 commits, 14 PRs in 25 days
gcpstopcloudazureaws
zlareb1/ClickHouse
Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system
Contributions:238 pushes, 30 branches in 9 months
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