About

Muqthar Ahmed is an accomplished IT professional with 19 years of experience in project management, resource management, customer and stakeholder management, new product launches, audit management, and handling end-to-end management of project delivery. He has worked with top companies like Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, and is currently serving as the Director of Engineering at Avalara. Muqthar is a hands-on leader who has managed highly motivated and talented engineering teams. He has expertise in C++, Java, J2ME, cloud computing, AWS, EC2, S3, HDFS, Hadoop clusters, big data technologies, and Android. He is also well-versed in Linux, Solaris, VxWorks, and Windows operating systems. Muqthar has worked on various projects related to e-commerce, internet, operating systems, firmware development, telecom, VOIP-SIP, big data analytics, cloud computing, and DevOps. He has good knowledge of mobile application development for Android and Windows Mobile. He has also developed applications based on industry standards design patterns, OOPS concepts, and data structures. Muqthar has hands-on experience with agile methodologies and waterfall models for software development. He is proficient in cloud computing with AWS, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with EC2 and S3, and auto-scaling, VPC. He has also worked with Hibernate, Puppet, Chef, and DevOps tools like Git Repository, Docker, Nagios, and Jenkins. Muqthar is flexible and adaptable in regards to new technologies and environments. He has good knowledge of OOAD concepts and a good understanding of Hadoop core API, distributed data processing systems, Hadoop multi-node cluster deployment/management, Hadoop HDFS, and MapReduce programming. He also has good knowledge of Apache Spark and Scala programming. Muqthar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He is proficient in Hadoop, AWS, HDFS, big data, SQL, Jenkins, DevOps, mobile, Puppet, Spark, CI/CD, Docker, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, integration, software engineering, parts-of-speech, Scala, Java, Android, and AngularJS. With 18.62 years of relevant experience, Muqthar is a seasoned IT professional with a proven track record of delivering successful projects.