Najaf Zaidi
Engineering Leader, OCI at Oracle
- Role
- Engineering Leader at Oracle
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Najaf Zaidi
Strong engineering professional with an MS in Computer Science from SEAS, Columbia…
Experience
Engineering Leader
Apr 2019 — Present
Responsibilities:• Manage and deliver on a large portfolio of key OCI initiatives with a special emphasis on VCNCP Backend.• Develop a prioritized roadmap of products, features, and engineering asks.• Work closely with a variety of stakeholders (other OCI teams, Oracle Corp teams, product management) to ensure cross-organizational dependencies are managed effectively* People management.• Build, manage, coach and grow engineering teams. Major Projects:• Roll out tailor-made per-box validation to increase the availability of the backend service via the new framework.• Improving the performance of Distribution Service to support higher throughput.Distribution Service is a high throughput service responsible for distributing the customer configuration to other data and control plane services.• Led the team to work on efficiency-related improvements to reduce the VNICaaS epoch latency. This resulted in the reduction of latency in the high-traffic regions by up to 90%.VNIC as a Service (VNICaaS) is a VNIC implementation service. These are scalable interfaces that carry out the functionality of multiple VNICs while being managed as a single VNIC.• Delivering security-related features that were requirements for the JWCC contract.Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract allows the US DOD to directly acquire commercial cloud offerings at all classification levels to serve missions from headquarters to the tactical edge.• As a Bartender, I interview candidates for Oracle, offer an impartial perspective on hiring, and maintain consistent leveling across the company.
Education
Aligarh Muslim University
B Tech, Computer Science
2002 — 2006
Columbia Engineering
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science; Computer Science
2011 — 2012
Skills
- Software Development
- Python
- Unix
- Artificial Intelligence
- Java
- Natural Language Processing
- Cloud Computing
- Eclipse
- Algorithms
- Jsp
- Mysql
- Machine Learning
- C
- Programming
- Javascript
- Linux
- Perl
- Data Structures
- Databases
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