Shehbaz Jaffer
Software Engineer at Google
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolShehbaz Jaffer is a software engineer with 13 years of industry and research experience, currently improving performance and resource management for large language model training and serving on Google’s TPUs. He pairs production-grade systems work in C++ and Python with deep storage and reliability expertise from a PhD at the University of Toronto, where his research yielded award-winning SSD coding schemes and multiple patents. Past roles at NetApp and VMware show a consistent focus on storage internals, filesystems, erasure coding, and simulator tooling, while early career work delivered high-availability ad-serving infrastructure. Shehbaz is equally comfortable in low-level systems optimization and large-scale ML infrastructure, and has a track record of translating academic innovations into practical, patented solutions. Based in Irvine, CA, he brings both cross-team coordination experience and an unusual combination of SSD reliability research plus hands-on TPU performance engineering.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at The Army Public School, Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of TorontoSSC, SSC at DAV Public school, BSEB Colony, Patna, Bihar, IndiaArmy School, Ha, Haa District, BhutanMTech, MTech at IIT DelhiArmy Public School, Udhampur, J&K, IndiaBE, BE at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversitySacred Heart Convent School, Sri Ganga Nagar, Rajasthan, IndiaThe Air Force School, Hasimara, West Bengal, India
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
fuse10
backblaze10
high-performance10
nfs10
storage10
data-exchange10
posix10
cloud-storage10
replication10
fat10
glusterfs9
openebs9
persistent-storage9
tarball9
database9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shehbazj/shehbazj.github.io
Aug 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
shehbazj/femu_iscos
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
FEMU: NVMe SSD Emulator (FAST'18)
Contributions:41 PRs, 145 pushes, 26 branches in 8 months
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