Status: Employed on OPT / Open to Work (for companies providing H-1B sponsorship)

Muhammad Taha

Software Engineer with a Master's in Computer Science and experience in optimizing distributed systems for performance and reliability. Proven ability to diagnose complex production failures, improve system throughput, and engineer rigorous testing frameworks for production-grade applications.

System Changelog

v3.0.0/July 2025 - Present

Mobby AI

System Software Engineer, Core Blockchain Team

Core Protocol:
bw->Led the design and implementation of a new reputation algorithm, including the transition to a weighted endorsement model, and Multi-Signature UTXO support.
Systems Debugging:
bw->Eliminated recurring storage panics using safe future recovery logic by implementing a state overwrite mechanism for dropped futures, preventing node crashes during read request timeouts.
Performance Optimization:
bw->Conducted memory profiling using industry-standard tools (bytehound), isolating a leak in the garbage collection logic that cut memory consumption by 35%.
Distributed Consistency:
bw->Prevented distributed state corruption by replacing non-deterministic floating-point operations with fixed-point arithmetic, eliminating consensus failures caused by minute precision differences.
Testing:
bw->Expanded test coverage by 22% by adding new scenarios for endorsements, rewards, reputation, UTXO and network modules; exposed multiple latent logic bugs.
v2.2.0/Aug 2024 - May 2025

Purdue University

Head Graduate Teaching Assistant - Computer Architecture

v2.1.0/Sep 2023 - Aug 2024

Cisco Research & Purdue Engineering

Research Software Engineer

v2.0.0/Aug 2023 - May 2025

Purdue University

MS Computer Science

v1.2.0/Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Head Graduate Teaching Assistant - Distributed Systems

v1.1.0/May 2022 - Aug 2022

UIUC & IBM Research

Software Research Intern

v1.0.0/Aug 2019 - May 2023

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

BS Computer Science

Engineering Logs

INC-1496
resolved

Zombie Futures & Storage Panics

Eliminated recurring storage panics by implementing safe future recovery logic. How I used state overwrites to handle dropped futures during read request timeouts.

#Rust#Async#Panic
INC-1468
resolved

Consensus Failure via Float Determinism

Prevented distributed state corruption by replacing non-deterministic floating-point operations with fixed-point arithmetic, eliminating minute precision errors.

#Consensus#Math#Safety
INC-1115
resolved

Automatic Testing Framework for K8s Operators

How we modeled the Kubernetes reconciliation loop to find 50+ critical bugs in production operators like Kafka and Knative, reducing false positives by 58%.

#K8s#Go#Testing

Full logs available in internal archive

./access_logs.sh --all

CORE COMPETENCIES

NETWORKING & PROTOCOLSBGP, OSPF, ISIS, TCP/IP, ZMQ, P4, SDN
CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTUREKubernetes, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, EKS), Terraform
LANGUAGESRust, C++, Python, Go, JavaScript, SQL
DATABASESMongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra