Mohammad Banikazemi
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammad Banikazemi is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of professional experience and two decades of research and development background at IBM focused on network, memory, and storage systems. He currently drives high-quality, high-performance cloud and systems projects at Bloomberg, combining practical engineering with a strong record in OSS collaboration and test automation. Mohammad contributes to prominent open-source work in the Istio service mesh, improving reliability through targeted bug fixes and end-to-end testing enhancements. A Ph.D. in Computer Science and former adjunct professor, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on delivery and enjoys mentoring engineers across cross-functional teams. Notably, his expertise spans low-level systems research through large-scale cloud deployments, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on performance and observability.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Alborz and Razi High SchoolsB.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Isfahan University of TechnologyPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (11)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
testing10
convoy9
envoyproxy9
env9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 36 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mohammad primarily contributed to the Istio service mesh project through bug fixes and the implementation of unit and end-to-end tests. Their work involved modifying existing code and adding new tests for validating gateway names, sidecar configurations, and EDS updates. The user's commits also addressed rollout status timeouts in e2e tests and contributed to removing dependencies on IP address order. They demonstrated expertise in testing and validation within the Istio ecosystem.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
mbanikazemi/libnetwork
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
networking for containers
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
containerskubernetesnetworkingdocker
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