Sajjad Rizvi
Senior Developer at Arctic Wolf
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSajjad Rizvi is a Senior Developer with nine years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, consensus protocols, and SDN-enabled network software. His PhD work produced a cloud-native streaming timeseries storage middleware and a leaderless geo-distributed consensus protocol (Canopus), demonstrating expertise in throughput, low-latency reads, and non-blocking data structures. He has industrial experience leading NPU-targeted virtual switch development and porting Open vSwitch to take advantage of on-chip offloads, plus recent work at Arctic Wolf. Sajjad blends rigorous academic evaluation with pragmatic engineering—refactoring ZooKeeper to swap in a new protocol and evaluating systems at Amazon-scale clouds. He is motivated to simplify distributed-system development and to create scalable, affordable education tools for under-served populations. Known for teamwork and hiring/leading small engineering teams, he thrives at the intersection of systems research and production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at University of TartuBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Aalto-yliopistoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Urdu, English
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
distributed-systems10
go10
postgresql10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
in-memory-database1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
smash-bi/kawkab
Feb 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:168 pushes, 11 branches, 1 tag in 7 years 4 months
sajjadrizvi/cockroach
May 2021 - Sep 2021
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:187 pushes, 28 branches in 4 months
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
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