Owais Kazi

2690 152nd Ave NE, Redmond, WA, 98052.
+1(480)410-1386
owaiskazi19@gmail.com

I am a Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services working for OpenSearch service. I graduated from Arizona State University. I worked as a Software Engineering Intern at HBO under the Direct-to-Consumer business unit. Prior to my masters, I have worked for two years as a Full Stack Developer mainly in Python, React and GoLang.

Education

Arizona State University

Masters in Computer Science, 3.67

Courses : Distributed Multiprocessor Operating Systems, High Performance Computing, Mobile Computing, Foundations of Algorithms, Data Processing at Scale, Software Security, Data Visualization, Information Assurance and Security.
August 2019 - May 2021

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Bachelors in C.E., 3.33

Courses : Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Network, Compilers, Computer Organization, Web Technologies.
August 2013 - May 2017

Experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Software Development Engineer II
Currently working on converting Anomaly Detector plugin into Anomaly Detector extension
Nov 2022 - Present

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Software Development Engineer
Reduced manual effort by 80% by creating an automated Performance testing framework. Led a project for creating opensearch-sdk-java an SDK for converting OpenSearch plugins into extensions
July 2021 - Nov 2022

Home Box Office (HBO)

Software Engineering Intern
Worked on the Client Shared Components team under the HBO Max Direct-to-Consumer business unit to create Data Models for the client application to render models like the grid, highlight, navbar. Overhauled the legacy code and flattened the inheritance level by 70%. Created a stub environment to mock HTTP API call to test the architecture and reduced the testing time by 90%.
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

Home Box Office (HBO)

Software Engineering Intern
Developed a serverless metrics monitoring service for the media software engineering team to reduce the notification time of videodelivery by 10 minutes using AWS Lambda, Nodejs. Worked on subscribing SQS message queue to SNS topic to deliver 10 events at a time. Automated logs using Slack APIs and scheduled lambda which reduced the work of scanning the database by 70%. Resolved a bug in the AWS Lambda template generator to resolve the operating system dependency.Integrated webpack to minimize the build size of the SAM template by 60%
June 2020 - Aug 2020

ASU (CIPS Lab)

Graduate Service Assistant (Backend Developer)
Developed REST APIs to analyze hate speech posted on social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter). Built pagination module for 5000 entries every day of Tweepy API. Deployed the application on EC2 and database on RDS
Oct 2019 - June 2020

Webonise

Software Developer
Designed​ and developed computer software web applications based on Internet of Things and Sports Betting. Conceptualized​ and created REST APIs in Go and front-end in React JS along with Redux as state management library. Built, ​tested​ and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products using Jenkins and Capsize. Integrated​ social media platforms Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and payment gateway GIDX. Reduced​ search query time by 60% for admin panel
Nov 2017 - June 2019

Projects

Secured Banking System

Built a banking system using the required security features: PKI, OTP, Session Management as an academic project. Led the team of 9-member and designed the system architecture of the application to handle performance using Nginx and Gunicorn. Developed REST APIs in Flask following MVC pattern, integrated JWT token, and worked on Role-Based Access Control.

Hyaline: Transparent Distributed Computing for CUDA

Proposed and implemented a framework that conceals the distribution of resources to make the user believe that it is a single logical system. The programmer is responsible for developing a single data-parallel kernel in CUDA while framework automatically distributes workload across an arbitrary set of CUDA enabled GPUs

Smart Monitor Surveillance System using Raspberry Pi

Designed and developed a monitoring system which starts video stream as soon as any motion is detected in the red alert zone. This system route the data from the source router to the client's router connected in a network using Shortest Path Algorithm

ZangOut

Developed an app aimed for new students to notify about hostels, food places, bookstores, classes, departmental stores, medical stores, doctors and daily needs

Client Server File Transfer

Built clients and a server that does file transfers. The clients can only upload files, and the server accepts file-name and file data from clients and writes them to files.

Twitter Share

Developed a chrome extension to share any link, text, image, pages directly to twitter

Skills

Programming Languages
Tools
Libraries
Databases

Awards, Paper & Open Source Contribution

  • Hyaline: Transparent Distributed Computing for CUDA - Received 1st Prize in High Performance Computing domain, 2nd prize in Systems domain and 1st prize in Paper Presentation Competition at three National Level Competitions
  • Smart Monitor Surveillance System - Received 1st Prize in Paper Presentation at a National Level Competition
  • Selected in top 25 in Digital Ocean's Shark Hackathon Contest all over India
  • Paper published in IEEE ICDMAI Conference. Link
  • Resolved a bug in Firefox for Android (Mozilla). Link
  • Integrated eslint feature in react app of Asiatik (Open Source Developer Community in Asia) . Link