# Uzair Mohammed

> Engineering @ Box

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/uzairmohammed

Reliability and distributed infrastructure engineer focused on traffic orchestration, failure domain resilience, and safe system evolution at scale. Interested in system behavior under stress, architectural tradeoffs, and the use of AI augmented workflows to accelerate iteration and identify systemic risk earlier.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure @ Box
Jan 2024 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States
Designing failure domains, disaster recovery systems, and cost-aware scaling strategies for high-availability infrastructure.

• Designed and implemented failure-domain isolation strategies for high-availability distributed services
• Led cross-functional system reviews to reduce architectrual risk
• Leveraged AI-assisted engineering workflows (Claude Code, Cursor Agents) to accelerate design iteration and proactively identify architectural and failure-mode risks, reducing review cycles and improving system reliability.

### Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure @ PayPal
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States
• Built and optimized core components of the Testenv CLI in Go, improving resource isolation strategies and reducing ephemeral storage usage by 30% through improved allocation modeling.

• Integrated distributed failure-analysis capabilities across Java services using Redis and NoSQL storage to accelerate root-cause identification and reduce incident resolution time.

• Authored deep technical documentation covering networking fundamentals (DNS/TCP/IP), debugging methodologies, and build/test/release invariants to standardize on-call reliability practices.

### Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ PayPal
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Austin, Texas, United States

### Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ General Motors
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
Software engineer and application lead in the global manufacturing space with a focus on automation and improving CI/CD processes

### Fullstack Engineer Intern @ AUTHENTIC Learning Labs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Chicago Area

### Data Engineer Intern @ KeHE Distributors
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area


## Education
### Masters of Science in Computer Science
Columbia University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/uzairm20

---
Source: https://flows.cv/uzairmohammed
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/uzairmohammed/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11