# Raza Hussain

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/razahussain

Passionate about solving distributed systems and scalability problems. I have 6+ years of experience working on large scale distributed systems and launching production features.

Email: razahuss10@gmail.com.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Part of the GCP Cloud Spanner team. Developed and launched multiple cloud spanner platform features ranging from schema enhancements, billing enhancements, multi region configurations enhancements.

Led the development and launch of a custom multi region configuration for a large GCP customer with custom schema and custom replica management support. https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configurations

Led the development and launch of multiple features for the Cloud Spanner Tiered Storage (March 2025) product release: HDD + SSD billing, metrics, limits enforcement, managed autoscaler support. https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/tiered-storage, https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/release-notes#March_10_2025.

Tech stack: C++, Python, Spanner, Internal Google Infrastructure.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Part of Einstein Activity Capture (EAC) team.

Built and optimized data pipelines and spark streaming jobs. Improved bulk data transfer speeds from AWS to Salesforce on-prem databases during onboarding large datasets to EAC.

Tech Stack: Java, Cassandra, AWS, Apache Zookeeper, Apache Kafka.

### Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Associate Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Software Engineering Intern @ Commerce Cloud Infrastructure team

Summary:
- I worked on re-designing & implementing a much more scalable version of the current alerting and monitoring tool central to the business of several Commerce Cloud teams at Salesforce.
- Improved the scalability of the system to handle around 100K requests every minute as compared to just 20K previously.
- The new system will be rolled out into production for the upcoming 2018 holiday season.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
Instructor of record (Lecturer) for the following course:
• Course: Fundamentals of Website Development (CSC 2320)
• Teaching undergraduate college students the basics of web development using HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP

Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lab Lecturer for the following course:
• Course: Systems Level Programming (CSC 3320)
• Linux, Shell Scripting
• Grading exams and programming assignments.

### Full Stack Software Developer @ Personal Programmer
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed a student & staff management system for a school named Brilliant Minds Academy in the Bay Area
• Executed the whole project successfully from beginning to the end, including but not limited to: Information Gathering from the client, Planning the outlook & contents of the website, Design, Development, Testing & Delivery, and finally, Deployment on Heroku servers
• Completed the whole project, from beginning to end, within 2 weeks
• The system is up and running in production & being used daily since 15th August 2017
• Languages (Backend): Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL
• Languages (Frontend): HTML, CSS, Javascript

### Open Source Developer @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Contributed code to an internal Facebook database management system, i.e. RocksDB
• Code was reviewed by Facebook Engineers and merged into Facebook codebase
• Added support for dynamic updates to a particular option variable in their codebase in a multi-threaded parallel environment 
• Changed the behavior of a variable from being static to being dynamic
• Wrote unit test cases for the changes I made
• Resolved the following issue: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/1930
• Language: C++

Links to my Pull Requests (PRs) that got merged into the Facebook codebase:
• https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2004
• https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2012
• https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2016

### Open Source Developer @ Homebrew
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Homebrew is a widely used package manager for the macOS
• I resolved several brew warnings & added test cases for several brew commands
• In total, 9 of my Pull Requests (PRs) were merged into Homebrew's codebase
• Language: Ruby
• Link: https://github.com/Homebrew

### Open Source Developer @ GitHub
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Project name: Bugzilla Board
• Added several features to this chrome browser extension used for easy dynamic view of webpages.
• ~200 lines of code contributed
• Language: AngularJS

• Link to the code: https://github.com/bendl/bugzilla-board/pull/11/files
• Link to the project: Link: https://github.com/bendl/bugzilla-board

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Lahore University of Management Sciences
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Course: Databases(CS-340).
Responsibilities:
(I) Holding weekly tutorials and lectures.
(II) Grading programming assignments and quizzes.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Georgia State University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Lahore University of Management Sciences


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29