Arif Khan Email & Phone Number

Redmond, WA, US

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Redmond, WA, US

Released initial version of tema app (transforming agriculture with data.)https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zinzu.tema

Reston, VA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Tech lead for Segments delivery platform.
• As a tech lead, spent time understanding legacy code running as Microservices onKubernetes (GK8) & hadoop jobs on GCP’s dataproc clusters, with minimum to no help,shared knowledge with the rest of the team and improved.
• Analyzed large volumes of service calls to identify cache inefficiency, worked with thepartner team to change calling patterns for efficient usage of pre-processed data.
• Designed & led an effort with two other devs to implement auto routing methodology todifferent GCP's dataproc clusters. This enabled us to increase the number ofpreemptible nodes and reduced cost by 20% and improved.
• Data is serialized as thrift objects in our large datasets, which need custom deserializers,troubleshooting was pain, designed and led an effort with another dev to create deserializer on large datasets and write.
• Analyzed audience data sets on non-used segments, designed & implemented a self learning & auto adjusting service to cut unused data, further improving data filtering performance.

• Open source contribution (personal project during free time) Simply Index Logger (SIL):
• Idea, initiation of the project, built a team of contributors, designed & developed v1 of the product
• Code is open sourced & open for contribution from other developers
• SIL is developed in JAVA.
• Design & source code is available at the following locationhttps://bitbucket.org/akindexedlogger/indexedlogger/wiki/Home

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led an effort to develop the export process to fulfill GDPR’s DSR. This was a cross team effort between onsite and offshore teams.
• Analyzed data and implemented auto tagging process to separate out non-private & privacy data
• Led cross team effort across the org to build a platform performing events sequencing using statemachine models in a most generic way. This was a complex effort involving Engineers, Data Scientists, PM’s and.
• Led an effort across research, data scientists and different teams to evaluate various anomaly detection algorithms on windows telemetry data, successfully delivered cross group feature.
• Worked closely with different teams in Windows org on a regular basis to identify gaps in events processing system, triage and prioritize feature requests with management & pm’s.
• Mentoring new hires and actively participating in interviewing candidates.

• Architected Analytics platform for retail partners using Big Data and NoSql solutions on Amazon’s aws cloud.
• Go to person and big data architect across the company.
• Developed scalable solution to process data on aws EMR clusters and load processed data intoElasticSearch cluster to provide querying capabilities.
• Built an automated solution to onboard new partners which includes various services (dns -dynect, sftp, setting up infrastructure on aws cloud and monitoring).
• Worked as an architect to search team to reduce data load times to solr(designing a system toprovide incremental loads to solr with combination of emr processing)
• Developed a prototype to build a cloud based self serving analytics platform to retail partners,which can be used by their in-house data stores / ui interfaces.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Joined Bing Ads when the group was a startup, has worked on various iterations of ad campaign& editorial systems until Yahoo & Bing ad systems were merged.
• Primary owner of ads editorial system, designed and developed a scalable platform to facilitatemanual verification of ads/keywords (serving editors from different locations).
• Member of a team that successfully delivered scalable ads platform during crucial Yahoo andMicrosoft search engine merger under tight schedules.
• Worked as a mentor and technical lead to offshore teams in India and China.
• Travelled to Bangalore, India to provide training on Bing’s advertisement platform to newengineers who moved from Yahoo to Microsoft.
• Architected a system to scale and distribute processing of windows app store telemetry datausing consistent hashing. Designed it in such a way, new servers can be added and accounts could be moved to new servers with.