Shakeel Rao
Senior Software Engineer at Temporal Technologies
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShakeel Rao is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building back-end infrastructure and cloud-native platforms, currently helping scale Temporal Cloud for durable, fault-tolerant microservice orchestration. He has deep expertise in distributed coordination from his time at Twitter working on ZooKeeper, service discovery, and dynamic configuration, and has progressed into shaping production-grade orchestration services at Temporal. Shakeel contributes to open-source projects—adding practical API improvements and tests to the widely used Zstandard compression library—demonstrating attention to robust error handling and documentation. Based in Waterloo, he blends systems-level rigor with pragmatic platform engineering, favoring durable designs that simplify operations at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (5)
c1710
zstandard10
c1110
api-design10
testing10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/zstd
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 5 PRs, 36 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Shakeel primarily focused on enhancing the Zstandard compression library's API. They introduced a new API function, `ZSTD_decompressBound`, to estimate the decompressed size of compressed data. This involved modifications to the core decompression logic and the addition of unit tests to validate the new functionality. Furthermore, the user updated the documentation to reflect the API-level changes and ensured correct error handling.
compression-algorithmzstandard
shakeelrao/zstd
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Contributions:29 pushes, 4 branches in 28 days
compressioncompression-algorithmzstandardreal-time
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