Nathan Moinvaziri
Software Engineer at snxd
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarNathan Moinvaziri is a software engineer based in Phoenix with 14 years of experience building and hardening backend systems, CI/CD, and build automation. He brings deep expertise in compression and low-level performance work, contributing optimizations and bug fixes to high-profile projects like zlib-ng and the C-Blosc compression library. Nathan has a strong automation and fuzzing background, improving OSS-Fuzz integrations and adding seed corpus and libFuzzer support to catch subtle defects early. His contributions span cross-platform robustness (Breakpad, Windows fixes) and practical developer tooling improvements (Codecov uploader CI enhancements). Notably, he pairs algorithmic attention to detail—fixing buffer over-reads and arithmetic overflows—with pragmatic build and release engineering to keep complex native projects reliable.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (61)
debugging10
code-optimization10
github-ci10
debug10
c-language10
fastly10
google-breakpad10
python10
image-processing10
windows10
compression-algorithm10
bash10
cmake10
c1110
math10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zlib-ng/zlib-ng
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Optimization Engineer
Back-end Developer & Optimization EngineerContributions:1093 reviews, 735 commits, 556 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on optimizing the zlib-ng compression library. Their contributions included fixing arithmetic overflow warnings and related type-casting issues, enhancing the test infrastructure, and adding support for platform-specific build and code generation tools. They also added the use of zmemcmp to improve performance of string and byte comparisons by using the unaligned access capabilities on applicable architectures, improving performance. The user's work involved modifying core compression and decompression algorithms for increased efficiency.
zlib-replacementnext-generationoptimizationsdeflatecompression
google/breakpad
Jan 2019 - Jan 2024
Mirror of Google Breakpad project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 PRs, 4 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the Google Breakpad project. Their work involved addressing issues related to variable initialization, missing includes, and file handling on Windows. They also introduced command-line switches for warning reporting and incorporated changes to support reading extended x86 contexts in minidumps. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on ensuring cross-platform compatibility and addressing potential crash scenarios.
googlebreakpadgoogle-breakpad
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