# Yusuf Akhtar > Backend Software Engineer @ Tanium Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yusufakhtar I love building cloud-native systems at scale. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tanium Jan 2024 – Present On the Threat Response team, building and supporting a world class security product built upon the Tanium real time visibility platform ### Staff Software Engineer @ Panther Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Pushing the envelope in Detections-as-Code ### Senior Software Engineer @ Panther Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Remote 3rd Party Log Retrieval Service - Proposed an architectural improvement to simplify existing development process for building log pulling service; proposed creating a generic, configuration-driven log pulling API, thereby reducing time needed to create new integrations with 3rd party REST APIs - Recruited team and organizational buy-in for the project and led implementation of the API in a multi-phase approach as part of the delivery of two key integrations that were required for large contract renewals - Reduced time needed for developing of a new REST API based log pulling integration by ~90% (2-3 weeks to 2-3 days) through successful delivery of the project Audit Logs - Led cross-team project to architect and implement audit logging of all user-initiated actions in the distributed backend architecture by instrumenting all entry points to GraphQL service and authentication/authorization services - Architected data ingestion of audit logs into the Panther product via Kinesis Data Streams ### Software Engineer @ Onica, a Rackspace Technology Company Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Industrial Site Data ETL Service - Implemented a distributed system architecture for ingestion and ETL of industrial IoT site data - Developed the data model and REST API and integrated with a React web application Industrial Asset Data Ingestion and Management Platform - Implemented a performant microservice architecture with a REST API layer for large scale ingestion, event-driven processing, and data retrieval of industrial site asset geospatial data ### Software Engineer @ One Technologies Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area Data Ingestion and ML Model Inference Delivery System - Improved ML model inference speed by 40% through asynchronous and parallelization optimizations. - Enabled real-time decision-making by decoupling data ingestion and implementing a session data retrieval REST API. ### Software Engineer @ Gerber Technology Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area I worked on the Cloud team which was responsible for the Cloud Transformation of the company's PLM and CAD applications. I designed and developed customer-facing Cloud-native applications using core AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) that delivered the company's flagship CAD and PLM apps in a SaaS, browser based model as well as internal apps for supporting the Cloud infrastructure and improving our product offerings. Lastly, I worked on R&D projects that sought how to leverage AWS to achieve technical leadership in the garment industry. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Connectloud Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Legal and Marketing Intern @ Connectloud Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yusufsakhtar --- Source: https://flows.cv/yusufakhtar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yusufakhtar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22