Mohammad Khan
Principal Software Engineer at Zscaler
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMohammad Khan is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building large-scale systems across cloud and enterprise environments, currently advancing platform security at Zscaler after four years at Google. He is polyglot—C++, JavaScript, Python, Java Spring, C#, and Go—and has held senior engineering roles at VMware, Microsoft, Epic, and Amazon, demonstrating deep expertise in performance-sensitive and distributed systems. Trained with an MTech from IIT Kanpur, he blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on delivery across both product and infrastructure stacks. Colleagues rely on him for architectural clarity and pragmatic mentorship, and his career shows a pattern of taking on progressively broader system ownership at major cloud and security vendors. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain fluency, enabling him to translate low-level optimization needs into scalable cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), computer science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), computer science at Aligarh Muslim UniversityIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
docker10
controller10
validation10
security10
go10
gatekeeper10
mutation10
conftest10
opa9
google-cloud9
golang9
scheduling9
k8s9
gcp8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mzkhan/kubernetes
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
containersschedulingorchestrationdockergrade
mzkhan/secure-state-remediation-jobs
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Secure State team and its customers can contribute with remediation rules and build a community around it
Contributions:26 PRs, 50 pushes, 30 branches in 3 months
securestate-managementcustomersremediationrules
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.