About

Taha Abbas is a Senior Software Engineer with over 2 years of experience in software development and a background in engineering. He is well-versed in data structures and algorithms, and has worked with a wide range of technologies including AWS, Python, Redis, Microservices, Javascript, Django, Apache Airflow, Docker, PHP, SQL, Elastic Search, Kafka, MongoDB, Spring, Jenkins, ECS, Kubernetes, MySQL, Spring Boot, Integration, and Web. Currently working at Byju's as a Senior Software Engineer, Taha has been instrumental in building TutorPlus, a session recording orchestration targeted to achieve a high precision recording rate of about 1000+ sessions at a time, further scalable. He has also built over DelayedJob, a custom life cycle which improved the worker efficiency by about 80%, and automated the generation of OpenAPI documents using Apipie, rSwag, Swagger Codegen CLI. Taha has implemented a request pre-caching mechanism using the concept of concurrency and parallelism which reduced the response time from ~250ms to ~20ms, and implemented a distributed election mechanism using Zookeeper in a scheduler service to increase the availability, coordination, and distribution of work. Prior to joining Byju's, Taha worked at Toppr as a Senior Software Engineer where he built a micro-service from scratch to serve course-based content and implemented serverless synchronization between different data sources. He also maintained data platforms and pipelines for analytics and measurement, and was hands-on with OLTP, OLAP, Dremio, Airflow, Redash, Druid, and Kafka. Taha has also worked at Adda Software as a Developer I where he implemented a time zones aware event listing API as a part of visitor management system and added a feature to trigger promotional messages in the Enterprise Resource Planning System. Taha holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University and has completed his Senior Secondary and Secondary education from Unity College, Lucknow, India. With a relevant experience of 4.95 years, Taha is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for building innovative solutions using the latest technologies.