Zara Ali

Passed Google L5 interview after 3 months of targeted preparation

Contributed CUDA kernel optimization reducing inference latency by 34%

First code review as senior — gave feedback on a junior's auth implementation

Implemented RAG pipeline with LangChain and Pinecone — first real embedding search working

Completed Advent of Code 2024 Day 18 — shortest path in a corrupted memory grid

Completed Advent of Code 2024 Day 18 — shortest path in a corrupted memory grid

Completed Advent of Code 2024 Day 18 — shortest path in a corrupted memory grid

First code review as senior — gave feedback on a junior's auth implementation

Contributed CUDA kernel optimization reducing inference latency by 34%

Passed AWS Solutions Architect exam, scored 892/1000

Contributed CUDA kernel optimization reducing inference latency by 34%

Deployed CLI agent that writes commit messages from git diff using GPT-4

Shipped observability stack: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger + Grafana for our microservices

Built zero-downtime deployment pipeline with blue-green strategy

Passed Google L5 interview after 3 months of targeted preparation

Shipped function calling with OpenAI API, connected to a live weather tool

First code review as senior — gave feedback on a junior's auth implementation

Implemented RAG pipeline with LangChain and Pinecone — first real embedding search working

Refactored authentication system to eliminate 3,200 lines of duplicate session handling

Shipped observability stack: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger + Grafana for our microservices