Mahad Zaryab
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMahad Zaryab is a software engineer with seven years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently working on Zero Trust Networking at Meta. He is an active open-source maintainer for CNCF's Jaeger, where he has improved backend tracing infrastructure and streamlined CI/CD and sampling via OpenTelemetry integrations. Prior roles span fintech and SaaS at Bloomberg, Atlassian, and others, giving him practical experience in identity & access management, admin experiences, and large-scale services. His GitHub contributions show a focus on reliability and developer productivity—fixing concurrency bugs, adding test coverage, and automating build and log workflows. Trained as a Mechatronics engineer at the University of Waterloo, he brings a systems-thinking mindset to distributed systems and DevOps challenges. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who surfaces subtle backend improvements that pay dividends in observability and deploy velocity.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (19)
go-language10
scripting10
testing10
distributed-tracing10
go-testing10
base64-encoding10
go10
ci-cd-pipeline10
command-line10
jaeger10
golang10
opentelemetry10
cli10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 665 reviews, 251 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mahad's contributions center around enhancing the Jaeger backend infrastructure. They focused on integrating the tail-based sampling processor from the OpenTelemetry Collector to improve trace sampling. They also modified CI/CD scripts, improving log dumping for integration tests and the automation of UI asset bundling. These efforts demonstrate a focus on improving the backend functionality and streamlining development workflows.
distributedtracingjaegertracingobservabilitycncf
bitfield/script
Aug 2024 - Nov 2024
Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 7 PRs, 74 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mahad primarily contributed to the `script` project by implementing new features and fixing bugs within the Go codebase. They added base64 encoding and decoding functionalities, including corresponding test cases. Furthermore, the user addressed concurrency issues, fixed a data race, and added the ability to set environment variables for executed commands. These contributions enhance the utility of the `script` library for shell-like scripting in Go.
golangscriptscriptingsedtail
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