Saba Aflaki is a Software Engineer L3 with 10 years of experience building high-performance data and backend systems for programmatic advertising and real-time services. He has driven end-to-end design and optimization of billing and reporting pipelines using Scala, Spark, Hadoop and Go, and has hands-on experience modernizing and stabilizing real-time auction infrastructure at Index Exchange. A Waterloo MCS graduate with a strong hardware background from Sharif University, he blends rigorous academic research—authoring four papers including an IEEE RDS best paper—with pragmatic production engineering. Now at Reddit, he brings deep observability, performance-tuning, and distributed-systems skills to large-scale data platforms while valuing collaborative, diverse teams. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain robotics and EKF experience, which informs his careful approach to systems correctness and sensing of failure modes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Hardware Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Hardware Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Saba Aflaki - Software Engineer L3 at Reddit, Inc.