Reza Naghibi
Production Engineer at Nulltech Systems
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolReza Naghibi is a production engineer and systems-focused software veteran with 14 years of professional experience and a coding history dating back to 1997. Based in New York, he blends deep expertise in high-performance, real-time, and CDN systems with fluency in C, C++, Java, JavaScript and Linux tooling. He has led CDN engineering at Disney Streaming, served as VP of Technology at Varnish Software, and contributes to the widely used Varnish Cache project by improving backend performance, streaming reliability, and observability. As an entrepreneur he runs Nulltech Systems and has a track record of consulting and building enterprise-grade systems across data modeling, search, NLP and analytics. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, data-driven design and for solving subtle concurrency and streaming edge cases that often evade standard testing. Outside work he’s known to pair a systems-first engineering mindset with an appreciation for cats.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, CS, BS, CS at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (8)
c1710
http10
caching10
reverse-proxy10
high-performance10
c1110
debugging8
system-design7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
varnishcache/varnish-cache
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
Varnish Cache source code repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 35 commits, 71 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Reza primarily focused on improving the backend logic and performance of Varnish Cache. Their contributions include fixing race conditions related to gzip streaming, deprecating backend reuse in favor of backend close, adding connection reuse status messages, and adding metrics for ESI subrequests. They also addressed workspace mixing issues within the piping functionality and fixed a bug regarding content-length when streaming errors occur.
varnishcachingreverse-proxyhigh-performance
varnish/libvmod-memcached
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
A memcached client vmod for Varnish
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 11 months
memcachedvarnish
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