Meeral Khaliq
Software Engineer
Toronto,ON
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Google
02.2021 - Current
- Design and implement solution to allow on call engineers to isolate customer traffic using Dynamic Routing
- Design improvements to reduce operating cost by reducing nodes procured but not purchased in regions
- Design, implement and kick off rollout of high risk performance improving infrastructure update reducing p50 performance
- Investigate and resolve critical customer issues requiring engineering focus.
- Investigate and resolve product tickets
- Design and implement POC for a c-core client library with multiple language bindings
Senior Software Engineer
Deloitte
10.2018 - 02.2021
- Move set of microservices that compose PC Optimum Middleware to GCP, from a docker container in a datacenter to an Istio enabled Kubernetes cluster
- Redesign caching and backing of data to reduce downtime impact by utilizing Memorystore and Firestore instead of Infinispan on prem
- Support production traffic
- Design, implement, test and deploy new restful APIs enabled on multiple PC Optimum clients written in Java on Spring Boot and exposed via Apigee Proxies
- Features used in production with all PC Optimum clients
Senior Software Engineer
RBC
11.2017 - 01.2018
- Microservices to expose new public restful APIs for Royal Bank communicating with legacy systems
- These APIs will be the first of their kind allowing external users direct access to RBC features
- This project is written in Java 8 on Spring boot
- Apigee is used as the gateway
- Developed a set of Microservices that created a reactive system based on Kafka
- Each microservice could be communicated through a Kafka topic or Rest
- We had orchestrative microservices that fulfilled a business scenario such as create an account in RBC
- I worked with architects on the design and implementation of the services - all written in Java with Spring boot
- The restful API is now being worked on to expose externally
Senior Software Engineer
Deloitte
05.2016 - 11.2017
- PC Optimum middleware project that required designing a new Restful API and Microservices to back the API
- This project is written in Java 8 on Spring boot and deployed in Docker backed by a Redis cache
- Lead the design and implementation of the core functionality and implement new features on this project
- Lead the design of the API to be consumed by both web and mobile
- I also set up core code patterns such as using the Try library imported from Scala for exception management, the microservice structure which includes packaging and class responsibilities
- I also implemented and enforced unit testing and development cycle and helped design the Restful API
- I also continue to support project through its performance and minor release
- Worked closely with product managers to develop new features for Loblaw Click and Collect mobile
- I took this project on under very tight deadlines from a party that left hastily
- I learned the core technology (Hybris) while ramping up developers on our new team and ensure client comfort with realistic timeline
Senior Software Engineer
TD Bank
01.2016 - 12.2016
- I led the design and setup of a CI/CD pipeline for the team in Jenkins
- I also set up a lot of configuration for deploying services into a private Openstack cloud environment
Senior Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
01.2012 - 12.2016
- A cloud orchestration project to allow large enterprise software to be deployed on an OpenStack cloud written in Java
- I worked in a team of 6 people to develop the platform that would orchestrate the deployment
- Along with that we created a CI/CD pipeline to deploy and test our software written as a mix of heat templates along with python and shell scripts
- Lastly I worked on our testing framework for which we used Cucumber
- We used agile practices and utilized the devOps methodology which is apparent from the skills I have learned so far in the project
- Designed, Implemented and Tested a library to generate validate and modify yaml formatted heat templates in Java
- Designed, Implemented and Tested a Utility command line script that was generated by the platform for each service at run time and would execute once a VM was booted on OpenStack
- Designed, Implemented and Tested APIs to interact with application which required schema updates and modifications
- Worked on project to implement microservices that that would act as a user gateway using Spring Cloud with consul discovery
- I was responsible for researching Heat - the OpenStack orchestration engine that we used to deploy stacks
- Specifically I looked at the creation of heat templates, features missing in OpenStack (at the time Havana) which were fixed on the IceHouse release
- Porting features such as dependant templates and files for stack launch on the heat client to our platform
- I designed, implemented and tested the gathering and pushing of logs on instances to our logging infrastructure (ELK stack) by using SaltStack templates
- I was also part of team of 4 to create update a basic CI/CD pipeline that would create infrastructure and execute tests and promote successful deployments
- Pipeline was triggered by git commits
Education
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Skills
Object-oriented programming, functional programming, TDD
API development
Software development, lead, mentorship
Software design
Code reviews, team collaboration
Databases, sql, nosql, document
API integration
Project planning, design , implementation, documentation
Timeline
Software Engineer
Google
02.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Deloitte
10.2018 - 02.2021
Senior Software Engineer
RBC
11.2017 - 01.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Deloitte
05.2016 - 11.2017
Senior Software Engineer
TD Bank
01.2016 - 12.2016
Senior Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
01.2012 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto