Mohammad Zakerinasab
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammad Zakerinasab is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of professional experience and a PhD-level research background in video transcoding and cloud-assisted streaming. At Google since 2016, he has focused on backend and performance engineering—most recently enhancing Vulkan memory tracking and UI counters in the well-known GAPID graphics API debugger to improve profiling accuracy and stability. He brings a mix of systems-level expertise (graphics, memory tracking, concurrency) and applied research from his graduate work on parallel video encoding across H.264/HEVC standards. Earlier roles include founding and scaling a software company where he led teams of up to 30 engineers and advising IPTV deployments, showcasing both technical depth and product-minded leadership. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who balances performance optimization with reliability, and who has a track record of turning research insights into production-quality tools.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Iran University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of CalgaryMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (15)
golang10
vulcan10
performance-tuning10
debugging10
vulkan10
performance-monitor10
go10
performance-analysis10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitoring10
gpu10
trace10
performance-measurement10
opengl-es9
android8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/gapid
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Graphics API Debugger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:22 commits, 42 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mohammad primarily focused on enhancing the Vulkan memory tracking layer within the GAPID profiler. Their work involved integrating a memory tracker for profiling, specifically for device and driver memory. They also improved the UI to display memory usage counters. Furthermore, the user addressed race conditions and other issues within the memory tracking code, contributing to performance improvements and stability.
graphicgpudebuggergolanggles
zakerinasab/gapid
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Graphics API Debugger
Contributions:4 PRs, 79 pushes, 35 branches in 4 months
apigraphics-apidebuggergraphics
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