Ziyan M
Software Engineer at Undisclosed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZiyan M is a software engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building and optimizing high-scale distributed systems. At YouTube he led initiatives on a RAM-backed distributed cache that cut upload failures by 25% and saved $10M/year, and designed logging/monitoring that uncovered further 20% storage savings. He contributes to open-source infrastructure—working on Twitter’s Finagle to improve TLS, Java compatibility, and observability—bringing production-focused improvements to widely used RPC tooling. A Caltech CS graduate with a background in scientific software and parallel algorithms, he blends systems-level engineering with analytics-driven cost optimization. As a US citizen with experience across cloud services, video infrastructure, and low-level networking, he’s comfortable driving both architectural decisions and hands-on implementation.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyKalamazoo Area Math and Science CenterHigh school, 4.8, High school, 4.8 at Portage Central High school
Github Skills (11)
javas10
mtls10
finagle10
rpc10
tls1210
tls1310
java10
libtls10
scala10
distributed-systems9
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/finagle
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Ziyan primarily focused on enhancing the Finagle-Mux library, a core component of this RPC system. Their contributions involved improving Java compatibility by adding methods and forwarding functionalities related to opportunistic TLS, and adding TLS Info to Client Registry. Furthermore, the user implemented TLS handshake latency statistics by incorporating logging statements. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving functionality, error handling, and observability within the Finagle ecosystem.
fault-tolerantrpcredismysqlfinagle
Wingfril/Wingfril.github.io
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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