Rizwan Reza
Senior Engineering Manager at VMware
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRizwan Reza is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Austin with 16 years of experience delivering product-focused, cloud-native platforms and developer tooling. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to well-known Cloud Foundry projects like bosh-bootloader and cloud_controller_ng—with a track record of leading teams at VMware and Pivotal. His background ranges from early-stage freelance product design to large-scale platform engineering, which gives him a rare product-to-infrastructure perspective when shaping roadmaps and technical strategy. A mentor and advisor for years, he emphasizes interface-first design and maintainable code, and has a habit of refactoring systems for broader applicability rather than patching around limitations.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Penn State University
English, Persian, Arabic, Urdu
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Github Skills (17)
bootloader10
bosh10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
terraform10
ruby10
terraformer10
go10
configurations10
gcp9
apidoc9
devops9
api9
database8
databases8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 commits, 9 PRs, 52 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rizwan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller. Their work included implementing environment variable population for staging in V3, checking space task limits, refactoring task creation to use app sub-resources and query objects, and refactoring task cancel. The user also addressed API version checksum issues and made changes to the download package functionality.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
cloudfoundry/bosh-bootloader
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Command line utility for standing up a BOSH director on an IAAS of your choice.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rizwan primarily focused on adding and modifying configuration files and code related to GCP cloud configuration, network generation, and VM type generation for the bosh-bootloader. They added default network and VM types, modified the code for networks and vm types generation. The user also addressed BOSH release constants, renaming and refactoring them for broader applicability. Furthermore, the user added the print env command, and added functionality for the aws-bosh-az flag.
gcpboshcloud-foundryterragruntcommand-line-utility
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