Zeeshan Lakhani
Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Zeeshan Lakhani is an engineer at Oxide Computer Company with 14 years building distributed systems and backend infrastructure, after roles at Fission, Comcast, Basho (where he contributed to Riak’s CRDT and preflist features), and leading fraud and chain-insight engineering at BlockFi. He co-founded and organizes Papers We Love/pwlconf, combining community-building with sustained open-source contributions to projects like Riak and Flow. His work bridges production engineering and research as a PhD candidate in Programming Languages and Tools at Carnegie Mellon, with deep experience in CRDTs, preference-listing, and scalable data pipelines. He pairs academic rigor with a creative background—a BA in Film and an MM in Music Technology—bringing interdisciplinary thinking to hard systems problems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
In Progress Computer Science, In Progress Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (28)
key-value-store10
erlang10
flow-control10
elixir10
work-flow10
genstage10
control-flow10
flowtype10
functional-programming10
test-automation10
webmachine9
eunit9
unittesting9
distributed-systems9
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Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
basho/riak-erlang-client
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
The Riak client for Erlang.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Zeeshan contributed significantly to the Riak Erlang client, primarily focusing on extending its functionality and improving its robustness. Their work included adding a new `get_preflist` function to retrieve preference lists for keys, improving the client's interaction with Riak servers. Furthermore, they implemented features to handle timeouts during search index creation. The user also added support for HyperLogLog data type.
gleamerlangbeamelixirriak
basho/riak_kv
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Riak Key/Value Store
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 19 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Zeeshan primarily contributed to the Riak Key/Value Store's CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) functionality. They added a convenience function, `is_crdt`, to check bucket properties for supported datatypes. The user also made updates and added unit tests to the `is_crdt` function. Furthermore, the user developed and integrated a webmachine resource to retrieve and encode the active preflist for a bucket/key.
javakey-valueriakkey-value-store
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