Tariq Mustafa
Technical Lead at Apple
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolTariq Mustafa is a seasoned technical lead with 20+ years of systems and storage engineering experience, currently driving Apple’s cloud storage infrastructure after a decade of founding and scaling eBay’s cloud-native storage services. He architected and implemented elastic block (NuBlocks), object (NuObject) and distributed file system (NuShare) services from the ground up, operating at multi-petabyte, hundreds-of-millions-of-users scale. Tariq blends hands-on systems programming (C++, kernel optimizations, epoll/io_uring, RCU) with cloud-native orchestration on Kubernetes, owning both data and control planes for stateful services. He led cross-functional teams, delivered automated remediation and ML-powered anomaly detection, and holds patents in data placement and cache coherency for distributed storage. Known for converting research-grade techniques into production-grade services, he pairs an MBA with executive AI/ML training from Berkeley to bridge technical depth with product and operational leadership.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration and Management General, MBA Business Administration and Management General at University of Arizona - Eller College of ManagementExecutive Education (AI/ML - Data Analytics - 1 year course), Executive Education (AI/ML - Data Analytics - 1 year course) at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at ZH College of Engg and Tech, AMU Aligarh
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (9)
cpp9
cpp-library9
package-manager8
package-management8
conan7
api-rest6
server6
rest5
high-performance3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Contributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 day
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
pistacheio/pistache
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
cppc-plus-plusperformancerestcpp17
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