# David Mirza > Software Engineer at Cisco Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidmirza Software Engineer with a broad range of experience in large software projects. Passionate about building great products. Experience with both client and service development in a distributed architecture primarily using GO (GOLANG). ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ AppDynamics Jan 2021 – Present | San Jose, California, United States Lead software development team. Worked on various projects including developing a golang OpenTelemetry compliant agent scraping telemetry data in an OpenTelemetry collector compliant format. Also worked on an opamp compliant agent managing agent lifecycle and configuration. Focused on developing quality software by design as well as unit tests to ensure quality with 85% code coverage on average. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Citrix Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, CA Developed Cloud Services from the ground up using Golang and Java Spring Boot on AWS and Azure to manage SD-WAN appliances. ### Member of the Technical Staff @ TiVo Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 Held various roles within the organization including, porting third party applications like Netflix, Vudu, DLNA compliance to stream video, middleware development and UI work. Developed code in a C++ multi-threaded environment running on an embedded Linux operating system. During most of those project I operated in the role of lead developer for the project. ### PRINCIPAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ Motorola/Good Technology Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 Worked on the Good Link Server, using MAPI to write a high availability, multi threaded, enterprise server that synchronizes users email, data, and notes from Outlook to a supported mobile device. Lead several development task starting from design stage to completion. Worked in an Agile/Scrum team. ### SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ PostPath Inc Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 Engineered Microsoft's proprietary MAPI protocol to build an Exchange drop in compatible high availability mail server that operates in a Linux environment. Primarily worked on MAPI protocol discovery using network captures, Active Directory as it pertains to Exchange, and Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) compatibility. Development work done in Linux environment using C++. Lead development efforts to provide compatibility with Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES), providing Postpath with new sales channels. Lead development efforts to support new Exchange features responsible for providing the company with several high profile sales leads. Brought attention to server deficiencies and resolved architectural bugs, resulting in a 25% improvement in successful customer installations. Communicated directly with high-profile customers to identify software shortfalls from the eyes of customers and to help Sales close important deals. ### SOFTWARE TOOLS ENGINEER @ ProActive Business Solutions Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Operated as the primary developer in charge of designing and implementing software tools for Quality Assurance to test the reliability of data encryption libraries. Created GUI based testing tools written in C++ using the MFC framework ### SOFTWARE ENGINEER @ Brooktrout Technology Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 Developed scalable, fault-tolerant telephony software libraries to support new hardware and protocols, including ISDN and T1 Robbed bit. Worked on multithreaded, client/server applications that automated media processing and call control. Majority of development done with Microsoft Visual C++ IDE. ### TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER @ Rational Software Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 Implemented key features in Rational Development and Test tools on the NT and Windows 2000 platforms using Microsoft Visual C++. Worked on software memory testing tool, performance testing tool, and thoroughness testing tool. Directly interacted with customers to resolve complex bugs. Accomplishments Include: Created and implemented technical notes to share knowledge between developers and tech support. Gave technical presentations to tech support and marketing about the internal architecture of Rational's testing tools. ### PROGRAMMER @ Creative Digital Research Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 Designed and developed user interface and multimedia applications using Java, on Windows NT. Applications involved loading images into windows, where the images could then be moved, manipulated, saved, or printed. Utilized Symantec's Visual Café. ## Education ### M.B.A San José State University ### M.S in Computer Engineering Santa Clara University ### B.S in Computer Science San José State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-mirza-79110a3 --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidmirza JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidmirza/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11