Summary
Mustafa Khafateh is a production engineer with 17 years of software engineering experience, currently helping run large-scale infrastructure at Meta from New York. He brings deep expertise in computer networks, Linux, full-stack web development, and distributed systems, with a strong interest in cybersecurity woven through his work. His career includes senior engineering roles at Columbia University and Akamai, plus earlier hands-on systems work at Riverbed and Symantec, giving him a rare mix of research-adjacent and commercial production experience. Known for operating and scaling critical systems, he focuses on reliability, performance, and practical security controls rather than theoretical-only designs. Collected across academia and hyperscale environments, his background makes him effective at translating complex networked systems into maintainable, auditable production services.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English