Zaahir Moolla
Senior Frontend Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Courtice, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZaahir Moolla is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently helping DuckDuckGo improve user privacy through front-end product work and contributions across their Instant Answers and privacy extension projects. He blends full-stack chops—touching Perl, Java, JavaScript, and CSS—with a user-focused sensibility, having improved Community Platform UX, help pages, and privacy nudges in the browser extension. Zaahir also has backend and tooling experience parsing API docs and enhancing Instant Answer infrastructure, and is the creator of RepoRemover.xyz, showing an interest in tooling and community hygiene. Based in Courtice, Ontario, he pairs technical depth with product-minded thinking rooted in his Business Informatics background from McMaster. Outside of code he’s musically creative and active in startups and philanthropy, bringing both collaborative and entrepreneurial energy to engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
B.A.Sc., Business Informatics, B.A.Sc., Business Informatics at McMaster UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Business Informatics, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Business Informatics at Sinclair Secondary School
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Github Skills (37)
duckduckgo10
javascript10
browser-extension10
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
perl10
chrome-extension10
interface-design10
java10
javas10
instant-view10
privacy10
front-end-development10
html10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/duckduckgo
Jun 2012 - Oct 2022
DuckDuckGo Instant Answer Infrastructure
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 122 commits, 45 PRs in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zaahir primarily focused on modifying and extending backend infrastructure for the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers platform. Their commits show changes to Perl modules related to rewriting and handling spice configurations, specifically to integrate with GooglePlus and other services. They introduced features such as controlling proxy SSL session reuse and improved metadata handling for Instant Answers, including categories, topics, and attribution. They also enhanced code related to testing and caching.
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duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead
Nov 2012 - Oct 2022
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on keyword data files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 180 commits, 255 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Zaahir primarily contributed to the Java codebase, focusing on parsing and extracting data from Java API documentation. They implemented methods for collecting and formatting method data, integrated method coverage information, and organized the output. Furthermore, the user improved parsing of CSS files, adding code snippets, creating redirect mappings, and ensuring proper formatting. They also made small improvements to other fathead implementations.
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