Summary
Mitchell Mahood is a Staff Software Engineer at Uber with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, backend services, and data pipelines. Based in Seattle, he has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Uber after internships across data-intensive companies like Datadog and Shopify, bringing deep expertise in PySpark, Kafka, Redis, and infrastructure monitoring. He’s comfortable bridging machine learning research and production—having contributed to HoloClean during undergrad—and routinely optimizes systems for resiliency and cost (e.g., reducing Cassandra traffic by 70% and improving failover observability). Known for pragmatic automation and CI/CD improvements, he combines strong data engineering instincts with hands-on backend architecture to deliver scalable, observable services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Iroquois Ridge High School
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo