Product Design Software Development

Hassaan Moin Khan

San Francisco, CA • ******@*****.*** • 412-***-****

Summary

Experienced technology executive with a strong background in engineering leadership, software development, and product design. Expertise spans a variety of industries, including distributed systems, autonomous systems, payments, and robotics. Proven ability to manage and scale teams, lead cross-functional initiatives, and drive innovation with a focus on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI/ML integration. EXPERIENCE

CTO, Quartech (Stealth mode)May 2024 - Current

● Managing a globally remote team to build a social application focused on building ordering systems to food delivery using a service based architecture to allow for horizontal scaling.

● Hiring of a fully remote team to build the app including frontend, backend, mobile and analytics components.

● Architecting solutions to view and use restaurant menus and being able to order at geo fenced locations.

● Allow video sharing capabilities to enable sharing of ordered food with built in chat features for clients using FFmpeg and custom messaging protocol for chat.

● Enabling AI/LLMs (Bayesian clustering) to allow for easy ordering and personalized food recommendations with chatbot capabilities.

Senior Engineering Manager, NAX Group Jun 2023 - Apr 2024 Managed a team of 15 engineers working on different venture projects

● Added good engineering practices that allowed for scalability, fault tolerance and easy deployments using Kubernetes.

● Developed the core platform for different ventures to be built on top of reusable components designed in house.

● Implementation of a workflow management system to handle different processes to handle data.

● Worked with clients to use AI components for their applications. Founder/CEO, SwiftTaxi Sep 2021 - May 2023

Co-founded business on concept of retrofitting aircraft tugs as autonomous vehicles and held responsibility for initial product design, hiring contractors, fundraising, component vendor selection, and engaging OEMs.

● Laid down the foundations for 2 way communication between tug and control center using Cassandra as storage.

● Recruited engineers and talent to the team to help build the autonomy stack using SLAM and PID controllers.

● Contributed to product design for the autonomous tug with implementation of a POC executed by engineers.

● Engaged representatives of FAA and regional and international airports, securing letters of intent based on POC. Software Engineer, Facebook Jan 2019 - Sep 2021

Contributed to development on Facebook’s payments platforms that included methods for converting money to/from Facebook’s proprietary blockchain/currency (aka Libra, Diem, Novi) and integrations with various payment service providers.

● Developed solutions for Facebook Marketplace payments and WhatsApp money transfers.

● Build a testing sandbox for third-party users.

● Designed and implemented solutions to enable onboarding of payment service providers and support existing providers, with development focused on backend code in C++ and sharded MySQL.

● Designed and developed integrations for Shopify and WhatsApp payments.

● Managed team in platformization of Facebook’s payment service provider integration including building sandboxes. Engineering Manager, Uber, Inc.Sep 2016 - Jan 2019

● Instituted a production readiness review (PRR) process for services going live that covered all aspects of scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance with graceful degradation throughout the larger organization.

● Managed, built, and maintained tools and workflows to handle aspects of Cassandra maintenance as a service.

● Led team in build of reliable core services such as distributed locking, unique number generator, and timer service for the Money Disbursements team which gained adoption throughout Uber using Java, Go and Python..

● Established, built, scaled, and led a cross-functional team tasked with determining the viability of Uber Elevate. Led build of a regression engine to test models (e.g. battery life, ground operation, fleet management) on Hadoop. Engineering Manager, Zenefits Nov 2015 - July 2016 Led a 12-member infrastructure services team to build a proprietary Java framework on top of Jetty and protocol buffers that enabled simple build and deployment for new services.

● Guided team to lay groundwork and template for syncing data across DBs to enable a move to microservices.

● Implemented a PubSub system atop JSF to allow for async message processing and use for Webhooks.

● Built a pipeline processing system to streamline data processing for internal Ops teams. Lead Engineer, Apple, Inc.Mar 2012 - Nov 2015

● Developed a high throughput, replicated, fault tolerant queue on top of Cassandra that reached 250,000+ reads/writes per second on a 16 node cluster.

● Designed and implemented sharing services as a general purpose service on top of Cassandra using CQL.

● Implemented a two-level generic caching layer across partitions for CloudKit.

● Integrated the security layer as part of a common infrastructure for internal and external communication.

● Upgraded Apple Maps infrastructure to Cassandra 2.0 to use CQL and CDH5. Added features to Apple Maps data pipeline for processing and publishing map data.

● Joined Apple upon acquisition of prior employer Color Labs in 2012. Color Labs projects included video processing software, backend work, and implementation of multiple features. Senior Software Engineer, XA.net Mar 2010 - Mar 2012

● Led development of backend data store and server side pixel to collect, store, and lookup information in real time for advertising bidders to more effectively target and retarget ads. Profiles of ~200M users were stored in MongoDB with lookup in <15ms to account for requirements of real-time bidding for ads.

● Benchmarked and tuned data in MongoDB to optimize performance of lookups.

● Built an analytics platform using Hadoop to generate detailed reports on user data and user preferences. Integrated platform with third-party APIs to acquire deeper insights into user behavior.

● Implemented in-house OAuth solution using Spring Security to enable single sign-on for products. Tech Lead (Backend - Ad/Analytics), Cooliris, Inc.Nov 2008 - Jan 2010

● Tech lead for the design and development of a scalable, fault-tolerant backend ads infrastructure using Java, protobufs, and embedded Tomcat that delivered targeted ads.

● Integrated third-party ad networks including YuMe and Jivox.

● Architected various real-time services to track usage patterns and log data using a custom built robust RPC implementation. These services allowed for capping of the ad inventory and stats collection.

● Served as analytics lead responsible for capturing client stats for processing in a Hadoop cluster using Pig.

● Implemented an internal ads admin panel in Ruby on Rails for AdOps.

● Wrote monitoring scripts for all backend services to track availability and load patterns. Senior Software Engineer, Cloudmark, Inc.Nov 2007 - Nov 2008

● Rearchitected a feedback system for large ISPs for spam reporting and enhanced performance 4x in threaded Perl.

● Member of Accuracy Team focused on analyzing and defeating spam attacks in real time.

● Introduced server multi-threading in C/C++ to eliminate I/O bottlenecks on Solaris boxes with 32 cores.

● Developed a multi-platform C library that obfuscates platform specific APIs for Solaris, Linux and, WIN32. Software Developer, Neato Robotics Aug 2006 - Nov 2007

● Developed software architecture and state machine for a robotics platform running Atmel Arm 7 in gcc.

● Designed and implemented algorithms for robotic localization, path planning, exit picking and navigation using C++ on Linux and WIN32.

● Implemented a novel SLAM method using Monte Carlo localization with occupancy grid mapping that allows a robot to stay localized in large spaces while only requiring a fraction of the particles needed in C and Assembly.

● Prototyped and developed an inexpensive patented solution for a laser distance sensor accurate to 1cm with a range of 4m. Implemented a variety of sensing technologies including IR and computer vision. Quantitative Trading, Argonaut Trading Jan 2006 - Aug 2006

● Designed and maintained a custom scalable C++ trading platform developed and deployed on Linux.

● Implemented a simulator in C++ on top of the existing framework to test strategies before going live.

● Developed a guessing engine to accurately predict orders placed by the trading system in the order book.

● Created a strategy to predict missing trades on ECN data feeds to determine market velocity. GSM Multimedia Engine Group, Motorola, Inc.Sep 2004 - Jan 2006

● Contributed to projects spanning audio playback for Bluetooth headsets, image capture for mobile phone cameras, and implementation of audio and camera functionality on a nextgen ATI graphics cards.

● Owned playback code for MIDI and iMelody with all development done on UNIX workstations in VNC. PATENT(S)

● LiDAR for Robotics

SKILLS

● Programming Languages: C++, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, C, Assembly, SQL (MySQL, Postgres), CQL (Cassandra), JavaScript

● Software Development: Full-Stack Development, Backend Architecture, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Microservices, RESTful APIs, DevOps, SRE,

● Frameworks & Tools: Kubernetes, Jetty, Spring, Hadoop, Spark, Zookeeper, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, Docker, Terraform, Git

● Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, GCP

● Payment Systems: Facebook Payments, WhatsApp Money Transfers, Payment Service Provider Integrations

● Autonomous Systems: SLAM, PID Controllers, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics (Path Planning, Localization)

● AI/ML Integration: AI-powered applications, Machine Learning for system optimizations and answering queries

● Project Management: Cross-functional Team Leadership, Client Collaboration, Agile Methodologies, Hiring & Talent Development, Product Design, Fundraising

● Databases: Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Cloud Storage

● Other: Fault Tolerance, Scalability, High-Throughput Systems, Performance Optimization, Load Balancing, Service Monitoring, Security Architecture, Multi-threading, FFmpeg EDUCATION

MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA (2004) BS, Electrical & Computer Eng. & Economics (Minor: Computer Science), Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA (2003)

Contact this candidate