Zameer Manji is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently contributing at Uber from New York. He has deep expertise in distributed scheduling and cloud infrastructure, evidenced by significant refactors to the Apache Aurora scheduler—streamlining APIs, preserving Thrift compatibility, and improving JobKey handling. Prior roles at Twitter involved adapting Aurora for private cloud use, and his long-standing Apache committer work shows a commitment to robust open-source engineering. A Waterloo software engineering graduate, Zameer combines production-grade system design with a pragmatic focus on maintainability and backward compatibility. Colleagues describe him as a steady refactorer who uncovers subtle API inconsistencies and fixes them before they become system-wide issues.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at University of Toronto Schools
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Apache Aurora - A Mesos framework for long-running services, cron jobs, and ad-hoc jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:183 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zameer made significant contributions towards refactoring and improving the Apache Aurora scheduler's underlying architecture. Their work included creating generic response and result structs, combining similar structs, and removing duplicate response types to create a more uniform API. They added a version call to the API and modified the thrift schemas to maintain backwards compatibility while simplifying the code. The user also refactored several methods to use JobKey instead of string arguments.
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