Salmaan Rizvi
Software Engineer at Observable Space
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSalmaan Rizvi is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and large platforms from Los Angeles. He blends front-end React work with backend and infrastructure expertise—Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, and MongoDB—having owned high-throughput payments processing at DoorDash and developer-focused infra innovations at Bird. As founder of Rizvi Software Consulting and current engineer at Observable Space, he architects flexible backends that scale while preserving developer velocity. His background spans engineering, an MBA, and early materials science research, which surfaces in a systems-minded approach and quantitative product instincts. Notably, he has shipped tooling that recreates complex production environments in minutes, helping teams move faster without sacrificing fidelity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Investment Banking, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Investment Banking at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of ManagementSoftware Development - iOS Mobile Development Immersive, Software Development - iOS Mobile Development Immersive at Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University
English, Urdu, Hindi, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
charts9
jenkins-api-plugin9
jenkins-pipeline9
helm8
profiling8
jenkins-plugin8
docker8
logging8
jenkins8
datadog8
kubernetes8
distributed-tracing7
k8s7
monitoring7
apm-agent7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
salmaanrizvi/setup-mac
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
south-american-explorers/south-american-explorers.github.io
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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