Zuhair Alsader
Software Engineer at DataStax
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZuhair Alsader is a cloud-native software engineer with over a decade of experience building distributed systems, storage infrastructure, and backend services, currently contributing at DataStax. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Ceph and Rook, and a strong systems-language background in Go, C++, and Python complemented by DevOps practices and Kubernetes. Zuhair has led small cross-functional teams to integrate cutting-edge storage engines (DAOS, CORTX) with S3-compatible stacks and improved user-facing platforms through React/GraphQL and serverless migrations. His profile blends industrial impact—shipping production storage solutions and scalable web services—with academic rigor from an MMath at the University of Waterloo and published research in messaging and distributed systems. He favors pragmatic, interoperable open-source solutions that lower barriers for adoption in complex storage ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at An-Najah national universityMaster's of Math - MMath Computer Science, Master's of Math - MMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Arabic, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zalsader/zalsader.github.io-old
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
koor-tech/koor-operator
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Koor Storage Distribution Operator to install and manage Koor Storage Clusters
Contributions:5 releases, 60 reviews, 57 commits in 3 months
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