# Mazar Farran

> Software Engineer at Hivemapper

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mazar

I am a Software Engineer with a broad set of skills and experience.  I have been in industry for over 8 years, taking on on engineering projects ranging from embedded applications to SDN software to multiplatform client infrastructure.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Hivemapper
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Bruno, California, United States
Developed and rolled out features for YouTube Elements infrastructure, including support for querying environment data and paginated queries, for both Android and iOS clients. Benchmarked, tested, and monitored experiments.
- Supported clients as SALT On-Duty. Answered YAQs questions, triaged and resolved on-duty bugs.
- Worked on major restructuring of Elements query engine in C++.  Restructuring reduced complexity of the query engine and reduced size of internal data structures.
- Wrote and improved documentation for Elements, Query Engine, and related infrastructure projects.

### Software Engineer @ Ciena
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States
Developed features and improvements for the SAOS platform’s NTP, DNS, and CLI components, including support over IPv6, support for provisioning with DHCP.
- Triaged and debugged issues relating to NTP, DNS, gRPC interfaces. Worked extensively with Linux and Docker.
- Developed infrastructure for development on the SAOS platform, including Netconf RPC logging, state dump.  These features were widely used to aid with SAOS development and debugging.
- Worked on extending SAOS features (NTP, DNS) to function on distributed, clustered devices.

### Applications Engineer @ Redpine Signals
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California, United States
Prepared reference projects, IoT application demos, driver ports, application notes, and other supporting material for RS9113 and RS9116 wireless chips.
- Debugged hardware level issues using various debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes. Resolved blocking issues for high profile clients.
- Provided development support to RS9113 and RS9116 clients across the world virtually and with on-site visits.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Redpine Signals
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, California, United States
- Designed and implemented embedded applications on Redpine's WyzBee IoT platform in coordination with software teams in Hyderabad.
- Designed and implemented graphical desktop utilities for controlling and provisioning WyzBee devices.
- Evaluated the WyzBee platform user experience, suggested improvements, and reported issues.
- Evaluated the performance of various Redpine wireless products. Conducted tests on connectivity, throughput, and range.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Davis


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mazarfarran

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Last updated: 2026-03-22