Mehrdad Nurolahzade
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehrdad Nurolahzade is a seasoned software engineering leader and PhD in Computer Science with 25 years in the tech industry and a decade of recent hands-on experience building and scaling distributed real-time systems. He has led large engineering organizations at Twitter—driving Manhattan, the company’s global real-time NoSQL store—and now solves scalability and stability bottlenecks in some of the world’s largest SQL clusters at Meta. His expertise spans fault tolerance, resilience, and operational excellence for platforms that handle millions of transactions per second, and he has a track record of reducing on-call burden and improving availability. An active contributor to open-source infrastructure (notably Apache Aurora), he blends deep theoretical knowledge in machine learning with practical systems engineering. Based in San Francisco, he’s passionate about mentoring engineers and applying cutting-edge technologies to deliver measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of CalgaryMSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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14answers
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
aurora10
api10
thrift10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
java10
python9
arraylist6
full-text-search6
struts6
architecture6
pattern-matching6
jsp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/aurora
May 2016 - May 2017
Apache Aurora - A Mesos framework for long-running services, cron jobs, and ad-hoc jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mehrdad primarily contributed to the Apache Aurora framework by implementing improvements to the `aurora update start` command output, focusing on features related to job updates. They also introduced a new Thrift API for retrieving tier configuration. The commits showcase modifications to Java and Python code, specifically within test files, involving testing and API development. The user's work also included exposing tier configurations as a debug page and adding tier information to the UI config summary.
auroracron-jobsapachemesos-frameworklong
nurolahzade/RangeContainer
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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