Md Zahed Hossain

Senior Software Engineer

Certified Kubernetes Cloud Developer and Enthusiastic Full Stack Engineer who loves coding and developing infrastructure on the clouds, loves DevOps, and always up for challenges and always eager to learn new technologies.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Payments & Analytics Platform Engineering)

Zynga Inc.

12/2018 - PresentToronto

Achievements/Tasks

  • Redesigned EOS service, which handles millions of requests per minute used for experimentation and targeting. Migrated it from EC2 to Kubernetes, upgraded java version. Optimized it to run on Kubernetes on arm architecture with 600 pods, Improved latency, performance, scalability (HPA). Reduced costs by a large amount. Improved release process from a day to just an hour.
  • Re-architectured Dataservices ETL, which ingests gigabytes of data into Couchbase from upstream services like Airflow. Migrated it from EMR to Kubernetes, decreasing the runtime by more than an hour, resulting in a $350k cost savings per year!
  • Architected and implemented a pipeline that uses Databricks to ingest massive amount of data into a centralized metrics service. The pipeline allows for calculating metrics and running statistical tests on them to measure success rate in experimentation and targeting. Lead every aspect of the project including planning, road mapping and execution in multiple phases, with 4 teams and 6 engineers.
  • Developed Front End and Backend solution using React, Java Spring Framework, integrated the API, worked as part of Alpha team to develop alpha features, integrated amazon Cloudwatch for status and metrics.
  • Deployed Matomo Analytics on K8s cluster, leading the whole process from initial Investigation, to Tech Spec and deployment on AWS.

Senior Software Engineer

Achievers Inc.

12/2016 - 12/2018Toronto, Canada

Achievements/Tasks

  • Developed features for both iOS, Android app while leading the iOS Team.
  • Worked on backend to add new API and modify existing.
  • Ran daily scrum, sprint retro and planning occasionally.
  • Release master for both iOS and Android.

Applications Developer

Interad Media Design Corp

01/2015 - 11/2016

Tasks/Achievements

  • Worked as a consultant and Lead a team of 5 engineers to design and implement the RBC Rewards website.
  • Worked with multiple teams to design and develop the RBC iOS App. Lead a team of 3 engineers to implement the Interac e-Transfer functionality. Integrated the app with a Restful backend server.

Education

BEng in Computer Engineering

York University

09/2009 - 12/2014Toronto, Canada

Skills & Competences

  • AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
  • Java, C#, Python
  • C, Rust, Golang
  • Postgres, MySQL
  • Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka
  • HTML, CSS, Dart, Typescript

Personal Projects

theACB Web App for calculating and managing portfolio (09/2025 - Present)

  • Developed a website to keep track of stocks, transaction, adjusted cost base and portfolio for investments
  • Used latest technologies and AI to plan, implement and deploy in homelab

Pi-Hole, Homelab, Home Assistant, Kubernetes (01/2024 - Present)

  • Setup my own personal homelab which includes a multi-node setup of Kubernetes, using Talos Linux, on baremetal and commodity hardwares.
  • Setup Pi-hole to monitor network traffic on Raspberry Pi.
  • Setup Cloudflare DNS tunneling to host my own websites inside my homelab.

TapAPlate iOS App (01/2015 - 03/2016)

  • An app that uses the concept of Uber for food industry.
  • Co-founder and CEO of the startup. Lead the design and development of the iOS App.

Achievements

Continuing Students Scholarship (09/2014 - 04/2016)

Received Continuing Studies Scholarship for maintaining 8.0+ (3.8+) GPA for the academic year of 2014-2015.

COMDEV Engineering Design Award (09/2013 - 04/2014)

Awarded 3rd place for 4th Year Engineering Capstone Project where we developed a Robotic arm with 6 degrees of freedom and 5 individual modules

Languages

  • BengaliExpert
  • EnglishExpert
  • FrenchIntermediate
  • HindiUpper-intermediate

Interests

Programming, AWS, Guitar, Sports, Developing apps and games, Devops, Cloud Infrastructure.