About

Mohammed Kamaal is an experienced Tech Lead with over 14 years of experience in building software for diverse domains including telecommunications, internet, data processing, and software infrastructure. He has worked on large traffic sites at Yahoo such as Yahoo Autos, Travel, Homes, Astrology, Sports, Movies, and Frontpage. Mohammed has extensive experience in backend engineering and has built systems to process large-scale data of over 1 PB every few hours for ad systems, search systems, and billing systems. Currently, Mohammed works as a Tech Lead at Yahoo where he works on data warehousing applications on AWS. He develops and maintains data processing applications using AWS suite of products, Vertica, and Pentaho Kettle. He has migrated more than 200 tables from Aol owned data centers to AWS and rewrote the entire security, communication, monitoring, and application infrastructure from Aol to AWS. Mohammed also works to onboard various data feeds to one of the largest warehousing and analytics applications in the industry. He has developed several tracing and monitoring tools for tracking delays and dependencies in large-scale data processing systems and builds both the backend and UI components. In the past, Mohammed has worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Yahoo where he worked on Yahoo homepage and network site data analytics. He has also worked on Yahoo! Magazines Backend, on vertical properties on www.yahoo.com, specifically on the Autos, Movies, and Homes magazines. Mohammed has contributed to Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy backend and has developed solutions using Twitter's Storm and Redis for quick real-time availability of data on production systems. He has also contributed across the board to DevOps initiatives across Yahoo! Data engineering teams. Mohammed has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Sri Revana Siddeshwara Engineering College. He also has a Pre-University College degree in Science (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biology) from Al Ameen Pre University College and a Secondary School Leaving Certificate from Gem English School. Mohammed's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Backend, infra, Search, Python, UI, Data Engineering, NoSQL, test, product manager, Redis, Hadoop, DevOps, Software Engineer, Java, and Apache Hive. With 11.20 years of relevant experience, Mohammed is a skilled and experienced Tech Lead with expertise in backend engineering and data processing.