Yasmin Hina Zaidi

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VP of Engineering · Distributed databases · consensus

Hollow Labs
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
IIT Madras
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Hollow Labs, focused on distributed databases. Wrote the C++ service that now handles 78 million requests a day. Before that: Uber and Cisco.

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Skills
consensusRocksDBRustC++Raftperformance engineeringCUDA
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Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: distributed databases and CUDA

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distributed databases, Rust, CUDA
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Teams scaling past 50 people

25 years of distributed databases. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Ahmedabad, India · remote OKrocksdbperformance engineeringcuda
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Hollow Labs · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Led the migration of 32 services to Rust.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 31% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2022 - Feb 2024
    Uber · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 22% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
    Cisco · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
    Oracle · 2 yr · Contract · Ahmedabad, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 19 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  5. Staff Software Engineer
    Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
    Paytm · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Ahmedabad, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. IIT Madras
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    1996 - 2000

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