Zuhair AlSader

Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

About

Cloud-native software engineer with 9+ years of experience in distributed systems, storage infra, and backend development. Rook & Ceph expert. Skilled in Kubernetes, Golang, Python, C++, and DevOps tools with a strong academic background and published research.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at DataStax
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Software Engineer at DevZero
    May 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Cloud Storage Engineer at Koor Technologies, Inc.
    Nov 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Software Engineer at Seagate Technology
    Nov 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr

    Lead a team of 3 to design and test a C/C++ library that integrates Intel's DAOS NVMe storage engine with Ceph's Rados and Seagate's CORTX to support Amazon's S3 API. This makes it easier for S3 users to adopt DAOS and CORTX in a flexible unified open-source storage system.

  • Full Stack Engineer at Jerry.ai
    Jun 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

    - Used ReactJS and GraphQL to improve CRM for sales agents serving 200k+ users reducing user processing time by 20%. - Migrated legacy code from Kubernetes to Serverless architecture, improving scalability and code maintainability through a monorepo